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1992. It was relatively safe to run an .exe from a reputable company. Surely a reputable company wouldn't mess with your computer. 2005. I'm playing this music

1992. It was relatively safe to run an .exe from a reputable company. Surely a reputable company wouldn't mess with your computer. 2005. I'm playing this music CD in my computer. Sony: hang on, I'm install a rootkit on your computer without your knowledge.

KennyBlanken 3y ago
2017: Open source web browser company silently to users, not even any discussion on bugzilla or anywhere else - installs a plugin made by an advertising company for a media conglomerate's TV show about hackers into everyone's Firefox installations. The project manager responsible who used to work in the advertising industry tries to damage-control things and locks/hides the ticket. Another mozilla staffer unlocks/unhides it and states it was improperly hidden/locked. The ticket is then made uber-double-super-secret so that not even mozilla staff can view it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 Other tickets about it are locked because of "off topic comments." Coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo... Then there was the Cliqz incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_mozilla_as_i_understand_it_and_metadrama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m... They actively worked to hide the plugin's true nature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5 Cliqz was a division of Burda Media.
sillywalk 3y ago
2023. HP: Our printers are made to be less hated
nullc 3y ago
Because you didn't have an internet connection there was little they could to that would benefit them, not so much anymore. (FWIW, in the 90's there were a few instances where commercially produced software managed to go out carrying viruses. :( )
- Kye 3y ago
  Viruses propagated just fine through BBSes and stuff like AOL and CompuServe. Also: sharing disks.
  - nullc 3y ago
    Sure but companies didn't have a reason to intentionally send them to you-- nothing to gain when they can't steal your data, only erase it.
    - ranting-moth 3y ago
      I vaguely remember a game that deleted data from your hardrive if you triggered the copy protection. The developer got quite a flak!
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KennyBlanken 3y ago

2017: Open source web browser company silently to users, not even any discussion on bugzilla or anywhere else - installs a plugin made by an advertising company for a media conglomerate's TV show about hackers into everyone's Firefox installations. The project manager responsible who used to work in the advertising industry tries to damage-control things and locks/hides the ticket. Another mozilla staffer unlocks/unhides it and states it was improperly hidden/locked. The ticket is then made uber-double-super-secret so that not even mozilla staff can view it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 Other tickets about it are locked because of "off topic comments." Coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo... Then there was the Cliqz incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_mozilla_as_i_understand_it_and_metadrama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m... They actively worked to hide the plugin's true nature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5 Cliqz was a division of Burda Media.

sillywalk 3y ago

2023. HP: Our printers are made to be less hated

nullc 3y ago

Because you didn't have an internet connection there was little they could to that would benefit them, not so much anymore. (FWIW, in the 90's there were a few instances where commercially produced software managed to go out carrying viruses. :( )

Kye 3y ago
Viruses propagated just fine through BBSes and stuff like AOL and CompuServe. Also: sharing disks.
- nullc 3y ago
  Sure but companies didn't have a reason to intentionally send them to you-- nothing to gain when they can't steal your data, only erase it.
  - ranting-moth 3y ago
    I vaguely remember a game that deleted data from your hardrive if you triggered the copy protection. The developer got quite a flak!

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