The original post: /r/piracy by /u/Tacticalled on 2024-11-20 08:27:03.

Would you mind educating my ignorance a bit about hex editors? Everyone is saying that you need to do checksums checks disks and all sorts of similar commands to compare official install for X software and then to do same for the same software but pirated. When all the numbers are equal that means it is safe to install the exe and it was not infected with sketchy stuff right? How we then can be sure if the crack is also clean? Like who is stopping bad actors injecting viruses into cracks or keygens etc?