That’s a good point, Lars! I’ll try to update the post shortly to accomodate this, and will take it into consideration when doing the concrete evaluations.

There’s no very large risk of data leakage, not always, but, specially with programs that work over proprietary data formats or local databases there’s a risk of access loss.

When the USA imposed sanctions on my country, at the start many companies closed access immediately.

This included companies like Adobe, and the people here who subscribed to Adobe programs instead of pirating them lost access to using the software they paid to use.

Once many companies realized the embargo was against political actors, many reopened, and I’m so happy to be able to give Adobe my money again…

Yet others never reopened. If for some reason I decided I wanted to keep using VirtualBox, I’d need to use a VPN to download it.