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  1. Re:I just don't understand how that's possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com)

    And all the trouble is caused by patching a web browser (however deeply integrated with the operating system)? What the hell?

    Remember this is Lenovo here, the company that not once but twice has been caught putting backdoors and root kits for Windows into their BIOS to be installed directly into the OS at the UEFI level.

    https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html

    It's highly likely one of their BIOS rootkits is trying to patch the OS and IE, while breaking compatibility with another BIOS rootkit to fake out the secure boot signature checks, causing a boot failure for not being a properly signed Microsoft boot loader.

    This is the same company with the BIOS code that refuses to boot an OS when it is unable to overwrite an executable in the windows system32 folder on the boot volume, such that you can't boot Linux on their Y40 and Y80 series of laptops at all, even with secure boot disabled.

    It's highly likely everything is working technically like it should be working. Secure boot noticed Windows being tampered with and modified directly in memory and Windows refused to continue the boot process into a trojaned OS.

  2. Re:Someone is attempting to hack everything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Should We Ignore the South Carolina Election Hacking Story? (securityledger.com)

    The CIA and NORAD are subjected to constant attempts to hack their systems. To the order of millions per day, every day, no matter what else is happening in the world. The NSA has admitted to having days with over 300 million hacking attempts.

    You don't "Try to find out who did it" or "why" for every one of those - it just isn't possible. So, yeah, rational people just shrug and ignore it. Only when something unusual comes along is it worth paying attention to.

  3. Re: Dear Apple fans: by KenHansen · · Score: 1 · on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com)

    Oh, I think it'll more than double the cost per unit to build them, because you can't pay only a dollar a day to U.S. workers, and you have to give them health insurance, retirement packages, etc. So I stand by it ending up with a suggested retail price of $3000.

    A 256 Gig iPhone 7 has a retail list price of $849, and it currently costs $224 to manufacture. What percentage of that $224 is actual human labor? 1%? 5%? Let's say it's 5% (but I'm pretty sure that's a high number), that means it costs $11.25 per phone for manual labor. Assuming Apple maintains it's $625 profit per iPhone, that means labor costs would have to ballon from $11.25/iPhone to about $2,151/iPhone, about a 200x increase in labor costs. If it is the 1% I think it is, then the labor costs in America would have to increase 1,000x current costs assuming Apple is content with $625 profit per phone.

  4. Re:Can we get them to remove other annoyances? by hairyfeet · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password
    Riiiight, what do you THINK he is gonna say? "Yeah we are sucking up your data and BTW Metro is shit, I'll see myself out as I don't need this job, thx" dumbass? That is like asking SJWs if they are racist or asking a neocon if they are for corporate welfare, all that robot is gonna do is preach the party line.

    Take some truth and drink it deep thats some tasty truth nom nom nom enjoy the big plate of truth, I can give you more if you would like, wallpaper the page if you want?

  5. People are speculating it's these shit stains by waspleg · · Score: 1 · on Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details (kotaku.com)

    promising DDoS

    Who knows. Whatever it is it's too late to matter. Most people who were going to buy shit bought it before today. You can still play your games with this being broken. Although it is scary to see account details change (mine haven't but it did switch to Portugeuse).

  6. Re:I highly doubt it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone (softpedia.com)

    Wasn't there a israeli firm who claimed to make any windows "hack" proof?

    What would happen if the "hack proof" firm and the "hack anything" firm tried it on the same device? Maybe that's what got the dinosaurs extinct?

  7. Re: Who would have thought there was more? by Crashmarik · · Score: 1 · on Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops

    Easy fix: wipe the system and install Linux. No self respecting /. reader runs an OS provided by the machine manufacturer, with all the crapware preinstalled.

    That goes for Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus, etc -- all of them.

    Help your friends and family get converted over to OpenSource!

    LOL and then watch the UEFI bios reinstall everything without telling you

    http://www.techworm.net/2015/0...

  8. do you have a source? by frovingslosh · · Score: 0 · on New Horizons Phones Home After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded

    Google is your friend, it was "all over" the Internet, you didn't need to wait for me to respond. Develop your searching techniques. But sure, one of the many places it was shown was: http://www.techworm.net/2015/0...

  9. Re:Man bites dog by disambiguated · · Score: 1 · on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab

    Stop the presses a bug found in a large complex program.

    No Browser is safe : Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari all hacked at Pwn2Own contest

    It's not "a bug" in "a program". It's every major browser. And it's pretty much like this every time they do pwn2own. If a group of hackers are able to bring down every major browser with previously unknown* exploits every year just for a chance to win a laptop, what can better motivated (financed) groups do?

    * unknown to the browser developers anyway... 17 seconds to pwn IE, yeah right... like they say on the cooking shows "here's one I prepared earlier"

  10. Biggest malware of the future is wellknow by Haricophile · · Score: 1 · on The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts

    Malware of the future is an institutionnal malware :
    https://www.techworm.net/2014/...