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Would be cool if a respected publication could vet this for malware.


Gonna guess you’re new to the industry. Hiren has been trusted for two decades.


This thing isn't by Hiren. It's by “fans” of Hiren. If Hiren had anything at all to do with it I wouldn’t have said anything. The fact that a totally anonymous group is appropriating Hiren’s name means I won’t be touching this thing with a ten-foot pole until someone has vetted it.


Whats the joke I'm missing here?


If it could even be called a joke, it's the fact that security paranoia has made people today far more likely to blindly trust something from an anti-freedom centralised walled garden (despite them often containing malware too) than a community of inteligent long-time users.


It wasn’t actually a joke. The group that made this thing is completely anonymous and they have appropriated a respected name to get attention for their thing. So I want it vetted before I’ll rely on it for anything.




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