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Yeah, a lazy developer introducing a dirty hack is state-sponsored hacking. Give me a break...

• znpy 6y ago
  Considering China is a communist dictatorship, the company is the state, in a way. Now my biggest guess is that xhost + is being used to allow a process running as root to launch a window into the existing xserver no matter what (probably a graphical client). It's a very bad practice though. How comes that devices can autorun software nowadays?
  • bzb3 6y ago
    They can't, he probably installed whatever software that came with the hardware.
    • znpy 6y ago
      I guess you're right. I don't understand why my previous comment is being downvoted though.
      • phone8675309 6y ago
        You criticized China, that's why. You can't criticize China on the Internet and expect to not be downvoted by the fifty cent army. Edit: Case in point - this comment was flagged less than five minutes after it was posted.
        • detaro 6y ago
          I mean, HN has an explicit rule about not claiming others on the site are part of state campaigns, so flagging seems like the correct response?
    • detaro 6y ago
      There is a few mechanisms through which hardware can get the OS to execute code, so it is possible for the BIOS to cause software to be installed. E.g. the easiest one is probably the "Windows Platform Binary Table" in ACPI.