For the love of God stop giving bad advice. Anti virus software cannot protect you from all viruses. Viruses are trained against anti virus software nowadays so only behavioral detection may help.

Trusted community and uploaders is the only way this works.

What’s wrong with empress? I really don’t follow this stuff much.

Movies and audio are very rarely infected, almost never. That depends on bugged software, so that you can be relatively safe of.

Executables… well… no anti virus can protect you in reality from dumb double-clicks. This is because viruses are trained against anti virus software until they can’t be recognized. There are mathematically an infinite number of patterns to run a program to trick all kinds of anti viruses. So in reality you can’t be safe. Once that’s done by an expert virus creator, the best you have to protect you is a behavioral detection of viruses, which may or may not work.

So, don’t rely on anti viruses. They barely protect you from script kiddies and legacy viruses.

This is the first time I ever hear of Usenet… read a little… but honestly sounds freakishly scary… torrents are anyway filled with malware… and now we have to trust a centralized source for files?

Do clients that use Usenet verify public torrent file hashes? How is security handled such that I know the files aren’t infected compared to whatever the same torrent offers?

It’s still a proposal. Nothing concrete yet. But from the looks of it, you can’t play such games since it’s cryptographically verified.

First they established a new standard for extensions that makes it harder for adblockers to work in chrome, that’s manifest v3.

And now they want establish cryptographic verification of the environment so that you can’t have a custom environment in your browser, like having adblockers. Similar to how DRM works.

As long as average Joe uses chrome, we’re doomed.