<story><title>BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/bbc-offices-india-raided-tax-officials-modi-documentary-fallout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>How does one get malware from playing a .mkv or .mp4 video file?</text></item><item><author>wil421</author><text>When I was riding bikes to the store we had dialup and floppies were giving way to CDs.&lt;p&gt;It’s been over a decade since I’ve used BitTorrent and I didn’t know magnet links were still popular. I hate seeding and there was also a lot of malware hidden in public trackers.&lt;p&gt;Once I switched to Usenet I never looked back. P2P file sharing has never been a good experience for me.</text></item><item><author>aliqot</author><text>are you perhaps a teen? that&amp;#x27;s a magnet link, its used to transfer things via bittorrent. we used to put them in the spokes of our bicycles when we&amp;#x27;d ride down to the five-and-dime</text></item><item><author>adwww</author><text>Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links &amp;#x2F; hashes &amp;#x2F; whatever they are.</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; If you&amp;#x27;re interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here&lt;p&gt;And if you happen to be belong to the rest of the ~99.13% world population, you can grab it here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Episode 1 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3C378A82CF67A1107523CA6C647077403A1EF74D&amp;amp;dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E01+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce

    Episode 2 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:F55992F922B9A0E49C09E198835F0F06EE07635B&amp;amp;dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E02+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>Honestly, a lot of the documentary is a mixture of interviews and CCTV camera footage with a fairly even handed narrative on the top – it, by itself, isn&amp;#x27;t that shocking and certainly isn&amp;#x27;t presented in a particularly sensationalist way. I&amp;#x27;m amazed by the reaction it has generated. Yes, there&amp;#x27;s some post-colonial history there and it doesn&amp;#x27;t look great that it&amp;#x27;s the BBC that has made it, as opposed to, say, a US or continental European broadcaster. Still, nevertheless, when you see videos of policemen beating up (usually female) students with canes because they&amp;#x27;ve had the audacity to protest, it can&amp;#x27;t help but make you think.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here: [1] and searching for &amp;quot;India: the Modi question&amp;quot; will most likely provide it elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;iplayer&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;p0dkb144&amp;#x2F;india-the-modi-question-series-1-episode-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;iplayer&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;p0dkb144&amp;#x2F;india-the-mod...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vel0city</author><text>Media decoders are often rather complicated and often involve parsing data directly into large and constantly changing memory buffers. A huge chunk of Android vulnerabilities have been from vulnerabilities in media libraries, even JPEG parsing has been known to lead to vulnerabilities in Linux.</text></comment>
<story><title>BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/bbc-offices-india-raided-tax-officials-modi-documentary-fallout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>How does one get malware from playing a .mkv or .mp4 video file?</text></item><item><author>wil421</author><text>When I was riding bikes to the store we had dialup and floppies were giving way to CDs.&lt;p&gt;It’s been over a decade since I’ve used BitTorrent and I didn’t know magnet links were still popular. I hate seeding and there was also a lot of malware hidden in public trackers.&lt;p&gt;Once I switched to Usenet I never looked back. P2P file sharing has never been a good experience for me.</text></item><item><author>aliqot</author><text>are you perhaps a teen? that&amp;#x27;s a magnet link, its used to transfer things via bittorrent. we used to put them in the spokes of our bicycles when we&amp;#x27;d ride down to the five-and-dime</text></item><item><author>adwww</author><text>Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links &amp;#x2F; hashes &amp;#x2F; whatever they are.</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; If you&amp;#x27;re interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here&lt;p&gt;And if you happen to be belong to the rest of the ~99.13% world population, you can grab it here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Episode 1 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3C378A82CF67A1107523CA6C647077403A1EF74D&amp;amp;dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E01+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce

    Episode 2 - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:F55992F922B9A0E49C09E198835F0F06EE07635B&amp;amp;dn=India+The+Modi+Question+S01E02+1080p+HDTV+H264-DARKFLiX&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3A1337%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3A6969%2Fannounce&amp;amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.cyberia.is%3A6969%2Fannounce&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>Honestly, a lot of the documentary is a mixture of interviews and CCTV camera footage with a fairly even handed narrative on the top – it, by itself, isn&amp;#x27;t that shocking and certainly isn&amp;#x27;t presented in a particularly sensationalist way. I&amp;#x27;m amazed by the reaction it has generated. Yes, there&amp;#x27;s some post-colonial history there and it doesn&amp;#x27;t look great that it&amp;#x27;s the BBC that has made it, as opposed to, say, a US or continental European broadcaster. Still, nevertheless, when you see videos of policemen beating up (usually female) students with canes because they&amp;#x27;ve had the audacity to protest, it can&amp;#x27;t help but make you think.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here: [1] and searching for &amp;quot;India: the Modi question&amp;quot; will most likely provide it elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;iplayer&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;p0dkb144&amp;#x2F;india-the-modi-question-series-1-episode-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;iplayer&amp;#x2F;episode&amp;#x2F;p0dkb144&amp;#x2F;india-the-mod...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wil421</author><text>Most of the time it’s a rar file that contains screenshots, album art, thumbnails, etc. not just a video file. I’ve been burnt a decade plus ago when I automated some extractions into a media folder on an old windows laptop. By the time I noticed, it was deep in the registry and near impossible to remove. It was something akin to MacKeeper malware on Macs, I don’t recall the old windows malware names.&lt;p&gt;With my Usenet automation I’ve never had the issue in about 9ish years but it could happen. I pay a usenet provider and indexer a low fee to rid myself of torrents and seeding.</text></comment>