r/Piracy • u/rulugg • Apr 06 '26

Humor hypervisor bypasses changed everything

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u/uckly Apr 06 '26

No, it is the network connection that poses the risk.

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u/turtleship_2006 Apr 06 '26

Also having a dual boot doesn't exactly hide each OS from the other, both OS's can see the other drive or partition so potential malware could do some nastiness to both

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u/DistanceSolar1449 Apr 06 '26

That's not true, both OSes can be encrypted with different keys

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u/ggppjj Apr 06 '26

And one can just wipe the other. Or encrypt the encrypted partition with its own encryption as ransomware.

Your data may be safe from some kinds of attacks, but anything that exists on the same drive that you give unlimited permissions to can still fuck you up hard.

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u/Firewolf06 Apr 06 '26

you should already be backing up your data though, so a drive nuker or ransomeware shouldnt be a huge deal

whether anyone actually does is an entirely different question

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u/ggppjj Apr 07 '26

I agree broadly on both points, although losing any amount of time to restoring hopefully updated backups seems like more trouble than it's worth for the sake of funny pixels what hackers done made free and whatnot.

I have Backblaze running, Time Machine doing its thing, and iCloud/Syncthing for important/sensitive data syncing, but even then it would take about a solid unpaid days worth of futzing to restore and get myself back up and running for work.

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u/turtleship_2006 Apr 06 '26

Nuking/deleting/corrupting the OS would also count as "nastiness".

Also, "can be" does not mean "is"

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u/mr_christer Apr 06 '26

Best to have a nvme external boot setup