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These skills are not that special. As far as I understand it, there are no exploits being used and editing the hosts file is not particularly hard. I expect that the executable is voluntary run by the user, since the user expects to run a real application/installer anyways.

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>These skills are not that special.

If you can do this, you can learn more advanced stuff. Society has bigger problems than getting some free software, and it's not just a lesser problem - it's scraping the bottom of the barrel of justice.

If someone needed to write this to pay bills, I get it, but they should immediately take this and use it to get a better job.

I'm going to agree with the others here, this doesn't sound very complicated at all. This is week 1/2 of many programming courses: basic network request, write to a file and fill your app with a bunch of text. For many languages, this is often their intro tutorial. I wouldn't use this as an example that the person can do more advanced stuff.

But I do agree with your sentiment, people doing things like this should apply their talents to better causes.

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