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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

What happened

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answer…

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Why it's spreading

Timeline

  1. First appeared on Hacker NewsHacker News
  2. Discussion started on LobstersLobsters

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