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Every single person who installed Bonzi Buddy thought they were getting it from a good source.
by smacktoward 6y ago
Every single person who installed Bonzi Buddy thought they were getting it from a good source.
- ebg13 6y agoBonzi Buddy, as a money making enterprise, would have paid for a signing certificate as a cost of business. This does not save you from Bonzi Buddy.
- criddell 6y agoSure, Bonzi Buddy might not be the best example, but you get his point. People just click through dialogs to close them without thinking about what they are clicking.
- ebg13 6y agoYou don't get to handwave away a clear fallacy with "ok but you get the point". _My_ point is that the point is false, not that the example is bad. If Bonzi Buddy can just buy their way into your computer, then this does not save you. From anything. Because real malicious actors like Bonzi Buddy can just buy their way in!
- makomk 6y agoI don't think this is just a hypothetical either; if I remember rightly, a lot of the really obnoxoius unwanted software from that era was signed with valid, purchased signing certificates in order to encourage people to install it via ActiveX.
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- criddell 6y agoA trojan that steals banking information is going to be able to afford a certificate, but they aren't going to buy one because they would have to identify themselves.
- ebg13 6y ago> they would have to identify themselves False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud In order to understand this, you really need to start thinking like a criminal. "If I had money, power, maybe guns, and no conscience or care for anyone else, what could I get away with?"
- criddell 6y agoYou're imagining some mastermind criminal rather than some kid or for-hire hacker who finds an exploit kit and gets to work piecing together something malicious.
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