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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices(arstechnica.com)

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Link@rentadrunk.org
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This should be the default on all PCs.

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AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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I thought we learned that like two decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

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AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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To be fair, you could compromise Windows 98 by looking at it funny.

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Lucy :3@feddit.org
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Does any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn’t really an OS anyway.

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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Windows isn’t an OS? What kind of nonsense is this?

I’d say the team from DEC who created it, would differ.

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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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It’s more of an exploitation system than an operation system

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.

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