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Comment by skrebbel | Hacker News Reader

The top hit has stuff like this on its readme:

> Over the past year, we've worked together to build and improve this project. It has been an incredible journey, and I'm immensely grateful for all the contributions, feedback, and support from each one of you.

It has been an incredible journey doing crime together with y’all. Huggles and fuzzies! ^_^

I simply don't understand that vibe. I guess I’m just old cause back in my days, the crime geeks openly did was warez and that seems substantially less evil to me. This software is explicitly intended to victimize individual users. I simply don’t get how someone can get so “incredible journey” about that sort of stuff, you active worked to make the world worse.

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That guy is literally providing technical support in GH issues. No way. People complain about logging into stolen accounts and the developer is happy to help. There's a pinned page on how to disinfect your system, accompanied with a vibe of "should've been more careful, idiot!"

Seeing this happy-OSS-community praise from someone providing a turn-key malware solution for even the most technologically incompetent jerks is just harrowing.

>Got hacked by Blank Grabber? Well, you should have taken care before downloading/opening suspicious files.

He's not wrong.

Got mugged? Well you should’ve avoided that neighbourhood.

You should've voted better*

hmmm so when you do projects with people and someone you haven't heard from in a while shows up and wants to show you what they are working on your first thought should be to grill them in the third degree and ask them the color of their underwear to make sure it's them...

Being careful is not enough, you also have to be competent. You can be careful all you want, I had to expain to an HNer earlier for example how .js files on windows are actually native executable scripts. Is a lay person supposed to know that for example?

A lay person should not be operating a computer.

Even then, if you download a .js file and try to execute it you will get the MotW warning. https://www.bleepstatic.com/images/news/Microsoft/vulnerabil...

Depends, some containers like vhd and iso don'get the warning or archive formats not supported by windows like rar or 7z either. And that warning is very ineffective.

> A lay person should not be operating a computer.

This isn't the 60s. Computere are made and marketed for regular lay persons/general public.

Oh, but their disclaimer says, they don't do crime: \s

"Disclaimer: This program is provided for educational and research purposes only. The creator of this program does not condone or support any illegal or malicious activity"

I guess it is a gang like mindset. Exploiting others and preying on the weak. And I am not that old, but I actually also do remember other and more dark hack activity from the past, than just warez.

Sure, people were doing it, but they weren’t pretending it was a good thing on public github repos.

What are you talking about? There were entire “demoscene” advertisements in pirated games back in the day touting the awesomeness of Razor 1911 or whatever.

I would argue between cracking a game and stealing other peoples accounts and money, there are worlds.

I was referring to “more dark hack activity, than just warez”.

Afaik razor didn't advertise “steal innocent people’s account” services in cutesy cracktros.

Back in the before times, the crime geeks openly did was credit card fraud, phreaking, etc.

Crime is usually more effective if you shroud it in a cloud of gaslighting.

I mean, there are tons of immoral projects on GitHub. Check out the ones that bypass ads on YouTube

How is that even remotely in the same league?

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