In Portland, Ore., Brittany Trahan started buying DVDs rather than paying for Netflix and Apple TV, while Lisa Shannon has been relying on public transit instead of taking an Uber. And in McDonough, Ga., Brian Seymour II has been embracing the cold to shop locally instead of buying through Amazon.
They’re among a growing number of Americans participating in a boycott this month, targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.
In theory, sure. In practice, we (reading code/Linux news) don’t see much of that. (Edit to clarify, I’m too lazy to pirate movies, so I’m not a first party source.)
Don’t run the video player with administration credentials, and keep the video player up to date and it’s likely to be fine.
What is the mkv going to do? It is not a executable format.