Creeva’s World 2.0

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The other day I was brows­ing Craig’s List and noticed a list­ing for some free soft­ware.   It wasn’t any­thing I was inter­ested in, but I did stop an think about it.   We talk about all the time about ver­i­fy­ing where you down­load soft­ware from.   We hear all the time about pirated soft­ware that looks the same as legit­i­mate soft­ware.     So why would you take free soft­ware from Craig’s List?

I guess this is just more an obser­va­tion.  I’m just point­ing out com­mon sense that peo­ple should be think­ing.  I’m just try­ing to point out that there is no such thing as a more trustable anony­mous source.   It would be easy to com­pro­mise a com­puter by offer­ing free soft­ware on Craig’s List and manip­u­lat­ing it before hand­ing it out.

I’m not say­ing not to take — just think twice.