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TedDoesntTalk on May 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day

So why aren’t torrent clients banned on Android, ChromeOS, Windows, and MacOS? Because I might download a CentOS installer after downloading those 2TB of copyrighted movies and music?

fastball on May 5, 2020 [–]

Presumably because none of those platforms actually ban any app, unless I'm mistaken?

TedDoesntTalk on May 6, 2020 | [–]

I believe crypto miners are banned.

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