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Late Night Linux – Episode 192

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VLC Media Player Banned in India

VLC media player has been banned in India and apparently has been since February. This seemingly is because a Chinese malware group used VLC, perfectly legitimate and normal installations of VLC to hide malware in systems that they'd broken into another way. And so now you can't go to the VLC website. You can't download it if you're in India. This is pretty bad. It's kind of similar to the reason why I didn't really comment on the tornado cash story we were just talking about. The people in India need to confront this kind of injusticeIf that's what it is with kind of these big government decisions if they go too far with our help. Maybe if that

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