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Hah, this reminds of a security researcher a few years ago that was reporting malware that he couldn't research without infecting his other machines. I'm fuzzy
by stinkass 4y ago
Hah, this reminds of a security researcher a few years ago that was reporting malware that he couldn't research without infecting his other machines. I'm fuzzy on the details, but everyone wrote him off as a paranoid delusional and the incident was quickly swept under the rug. Makes me wonder if he found some sophisticated state sponsored stuff and got smeared to hush it up.
I mean realistically, we'd be naive to not expect that state-sponsored hackers have rooted machines somewhere in the supply chain (hardware, firmware and of course software). Is everyone being monitored all the time? No, but I'd stay away from electronics if I expected an intelligence agency was interested in me.
- from 4y agoMaybe you're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS.
- hrgiger 4y agoShutting down everything because of paranoia sounds a bit extreme
- dboreham 4y agoEventually it electrifies its power cord so that if you try to power it off you get zapped.
- numpad0 4y agoI had that kind of megalomaniac fantasy in the past, but the started to think that xkcd.com/2347 (“random person in Nebraska”) should apply to NSA malware too, and there can’t be as much tons of people working on it as in my imagination. Though I’d happily cooperate if me watching team did exist and came out of shadows to clarify their doubts and pass along the taxpayer money saved :)