Miscellaneous Tech News
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Would you pay $1m for a laptop full of malware?
A laptop deliberately infected with six notorious strains of malware, including WannaCry and ILoveYou, is being auctioned in the US as an art project.
At time of writing, the highest bid for the device was $1.1m (£800,000).
The auction states that the Samsung laptop's internet connectivity will be disabled when the device is shipped to the auction winner.
The 11-year-old Notebook has been air-gapped - a security measure to isolate it from other networks.Bunch of dumb asses, wasting over $1million on a 11 year old laptop. What's the point?
I could do that with any old piece of hardware I have here.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Would you pay $1m for a laptop full of malware?
A laptop deliberately infected with six notorious strains of malware, including WannaCry and ILoveYou, is being auctioned in the US as an art project.
At time of writing, the highest bid for the device was $1.1m (£800,000).
The auction states that the Samsung laptop's internet connectivity will be disabled when the device is shipped to the auction winner.
The 11-year-old Notebook has been air-gapped - a security measure to isolate it from other networks.Bunch of dumb asses, wasting over $1million on a 11 year old laptop. What's the point?
I could do that with any old piece of hardware I have here.
then do it and get a million dollars.
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@WrCombs said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Would you pay $1m for a laptop full of malware?
A laptop deliberately infected with six notorious strains of malware, including WannaCry and ILoveYou, is being auctioned in the US as an art project.
At time of writing, the highest bid for the device was $1.1m (£800,000).
The auction states that the Samsung laptop's internet connectivity will be disabled when the device is shipped to the auction winner.
The 11-year-old Notebook has been air-gapped - a security measure to isolate it from other networks.Bunch of dumb asses, wasting over $1million on a 11 year old laptop. What's the point?
I could do that with any old piece of hardware I have here.
then do it and get a million dollars.
I'm not nearly motivated enough to do that.
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And I'm not salty over someone getting over $1 million for this laptop, I'm salty that people "believe it's art".
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Windows 10 1903 is out for everyone
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Windows 10 1903 is out for everyone
Except for Huawei.
LOL - you think MS is not part of the 90 day extension for Huawei?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Windows 10 1903 is out for everyone
Except for Huawei.
LOL - you think MS is not part of the 90 day extension for Huawei?
I do not think so, no.
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https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-drops-huawei-laptops-from-its-store
Not announced yet if Huawei is getting updates.
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Number Two Losers in the US Markets Today: Qualcomm
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EE and Vodafone drop Huawei phones from 5G network launch
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Why a Windows flaw patched nine days ago is still spooking the Internet
Researchers warn dangerous BlueKeep vulnerability is almost sure to be exploited.
It has been nine days since Microsoft patched the high-severity vulnerability known as BlueKeep, and yet the dire advisories about its potential to sow worldwide disruptions keep coming. -
Updates on CentOS 8 development...
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@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Updates on CentOS 8 development...
Keep you logical reasoning to yourself!
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Google stored some passwords in plaintext for 14 years
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/23/google-stored-some-passwords-in-plain-text-for-14-years/
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Updates on CentOS 8 development...
Keep you logical reasoning to yourself!
I love this bit.
CentOS needs to go through the source code and find out all the places where debranding is needed. No you can't just "sed s'/Red Hat/CentOS/' -
Antergos Linux shuts down
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Antergos Linux shuts down
When I wanted to try Arch Linux, I always ended up using Manjaro instead of Antergos.
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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Antergos Linux shuts down
Probably good. It was nice, I've used it, but the community has to reduce the splintering if it is going to compete effectively.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Antergos Linux shuts down
When I wanted to try Arch Linux, I always ended up using Manjaro instead of Antergos.
Sodium used both for testing. But yes, Manjaro was the more popular. And honestly, the whole Arch system seems like a big cluster.
