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by heavyset_go 1764 days ago
What kind of social engineering would lead an innocent person to install malware on their devices? Or do you think people like that want to take part in an illegal DDoS botnet?
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I think there’s a difference between “I’ll click this totally legit button to protect my computer from viruses” and “I’ll save this picture of a child being raped to my photo library.”

A lot of people may not know how to avoid malware. But I don’t think very many of them would be so inept as to accidentally long press on child porn and tap “Add to Photos”.

... and "I'll save this picture of an hilarious kitten to my photo collection"...

Fixed it for you.

The image to be saved doesn't have to be disturbing at all to trigger a hash collision.

The linked repo has code to modify an image to generate a hash collision with another unrelated image.

That's the whole point.