They also weren’t doing any kind of SSL verification for the download request, nor were they doing any kind of hash verification or signing. The former would have prevented a redirect attack in the first place, and the latter would have prevented downloaded files from being modified or swapped out.

My brother in Christ please get Handbrake. Your storage space will go much farther if you’re at least re-encoding after the fact.

The next generation of script kiddies is going to be iPad babies. It’ll be interesting to see, since the majority can’t use anything in tech unless it’s an app.

We built computer labs in schools, to teach kids how to use computers. Then we decided computers are ubiquitous enough that we didn’t need computer labs anymore. And now we have an entire generation that doesn’t know how to use computers, because they use their phones and tablets for everything instead.