| Risk | Description | |------|-------------| | | Common for keygens to contain ransomware, keyloggers, or crypto miners. | | False positives might be real threats. | | Legal liability | Corporations have been sued for using unlicensed EDA tools. | | No updates | Stuck on 2017 version — no support for newer FPGAs or OS updates (Windows 11/10 patches may break it). | | Bricked designs | Cracked tools can produce corrupt bitstreams that damage hardware. | | Network backdoors | Some keygens phone home or open reverse shells. |

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