However severe those consequences are, I'm sure it's not 'cryptolocker hard drive' or worse 'lose hundreds of thousands from my brokerage account' severe. I am happy to pay for my bits. It's wild to me this is somehow a controversial opinion on a board supposedly populated with well paid software engineers.
I’m thankfully no crypto nut and use windows only for gaming, so I’m prepared for any and all consequences of me pirating it.
Btw it’s just downloading the official image and unlocking it with open source software, so I would argue there is no risk at all.
Btw did you audit all the Linux source code to check for malware?
