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I'm wondering how many used Windows PCs have been sold with malware on them, and whether anyone has ever attempted to hold the OEM legally responsible for it.
by Zak 3y ago
I'm wondering how many used Windows PCs have been sold with malware on them, and whether anyone has ever attempted to hold the OEM legally responsible for it.
- saxonww 3y agoLet me be clear: I think it would be ridiculous to do that. But a lot of what I read about that's "our lawyers said to do this" comes off as ridiculous to me. And some court decisions I read about, and the reasoning, seem ridiculous to me. So I don't trust that anything legal-ish that seems ridiculous to me is not legitimate.
- ysofunny 3y agoI wonder how many USB storage devices have had their firmware infected without anybody ever even knowing about it like SD cards and other sorts of storage devices with embedded microcomputers; why storage? for a huge binary payload for the host system! all it takes is one super secret 64-bit instruction that makes the cpu drop its pants and bend over, or one super secret exploit