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I've bought systems off of Amazon that had pirated Windows licenses on them (otherwise a great little fanless box) In a previous life I was an infosec consulta
by jcims 5y ago
I've bought systems off of Amazon that had pirated Windows licenses on them (otherwise a great little fanless box)
In a previous life I was an infosec consultant. We did some work for a hospital that found malware on the control hosts shipped with a brand new turnkey MRI system from a German manufacturer.
- capableweb 5y agoWhat did the malware do precisely? The definition is so broad and context-sensitive, that just saying malware doesn't really say anything. Some people would consider TPM and it's code malware, others would consider anything they don't like malware (like telemetry collection in Windows or whatever).
- jcims 5y agoIt was one of the big Microsoft worms from ~10 years ago plus a few random ones.
- Wingman4l7 5y agoI've seen plenty of stick PCs on Amazon that definitely have pirated copies of Windows on them. I continue to be a bit surprised that Microsoft hasn't gone after Amazon for "aiding & abetting" this, but they probably have bigger fish to fry.
- flatiron 5y agothey dont make their money on Windows licenses anyway. they make it on all the crap they shove in your face when you use windows. you've been able to pirate windows 10 using their "windows 7 free update" key even after they discontinued it. and everyone who got a free upgrade from 7->10 uses the same key so its not like you are gonna get caught.