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A hidden screen soliciting donations is certainly in poor taste when you're building a product meant to represent another entity, but "malware"? What is the att
by BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
A hidden screen soliciting donations is certainly in poor taste when you're building a product meant to represent another entity, but "malware"? What is the attack surface on a conference badge that runs a Game Boy emulator?
- gklitz 2y agoIt’s like someone walking into a random restaurant seeing your food on the counter, taking it to your table then pocketing your tip. You’re “just doing the waiters job for free” and “just soliciting donations” but in reality you are abusing the situation to make the costumer think you’re taking money on behalf of the restaurant when there is no contracted affiliation. And it’s software injected for financial gain, I can’t why anyone would take issue with calling it malware. A .txt file in the source folder of a game on steam stating “donate to the devs” with a crypto address is also malware. It doesn’t have to be sophisticated to fall under the category.
- echoangle 2y agoYou think people seeing the screen and donating weren’t aware they weren’t donating to DEFCON but to some other party? Even though it states that on top of the screen? Also, a non-executable text file can’t be malware because the “ware” stands for software. That’s not malware, that might be social engineering.