Yes it's not even really considered piracy. It creates a fully activated legitimate copy of Windows. It's just basically a key-gen. It is a trojan in that it works like a trojan would, except it's verified as safe.
But really you gotta know coming to Lemmy for this you're just gonna get told to run Linux. So I'll do it for you. Run Linux. The real trojan MAS creates is a fully activated copy of Microsoft Windows.
Rooting against TikTok for breaching privacy is fine and all but if we wanna talk about social media that needs to be banned then let's talk about Meta and Google. It's painfully obvious that the only reason TikTok came under fire is that it was a threat to American social media companies and they couldn't compete so instead they regulate.
I really don't care about what TT does with my data, and I've been called a "privacy schizo" by people at work. I'll mail every bit of my data to Xi Jinping personally before I ever install any apps made by Meta.
I use it regularly because it is so far the best free privacy respecting search. But holy shit the lack of features (can't even do boolean search) is insane
Thats a lot of mental gymnastics to justify a massive overhaul of a system which would open up a whole slate of security issues. I get it, I used to believe strongly in blockchain but so far it seems to be a solution looking desperately for a problem to solve. You cannot "tech" your way out of societal issue.
If you read a modern bible translation from the perspective of christian mythology just as we treat Greek mythology a lot of the stories are actually fantastic reads
Algorithms To Live By, applying computer science and mathematic principles to real life. Helping make better decisions that are provably more efficient. Really interesting and anyone who has any interest in computing can get a lot from the book.
And lots of them are just morons on Oxy