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How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks
Anthony_Cargile writes "We all now know about Asus shipping illegal software cracks and confidential documents/source code on their recovery DVD (and in the system root), but this article tells exactly how it happened. It's even more careless than you think, and most likely an accident."
Damn that lipstick!
You see my point right?
That you're a crackhead?
Hello, this is John, your boss's boss from Asus. We found your thumb drive plugged in one of our server used to build Vista images. Are you available monday 9:00am for a quick meeting ? We need to have a little talk.
PS: bring 1 or 2 empty boxes.
-John
and stored his resume (presumeably, conspiracy theorists may disagree) as well as a few ÃharmlessÃ(TM) keygens and serials on it as well
... So, are you implying that you're a coincidence theorist???
Fact: Everything I say is fiction.
So apparently an Asus employee happened to have a personal flash drive, and stored his resume
If that really was his/her resume, I doubt it will do much good to him/her, now.
I love the twist, though: "I worked for 3 years at Asus, but I, er, decided to move on now. Oh, BTW: you can find my resume on your Asus recovery disk - isn't that convenient!"
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
"I thought it would be "Don't buy Asus machines."
Why would I mind if they come with a free bonus?
I'd be delighted with the "unintended extras" on the recovery disk, and (since I don't own one) hope they will show up via the usual sources so I can check them out.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Once I had a phone call from a lady who claimed my magazine coverdisc was distributing porn. It was a real "holy crap" of a moment, because I had to admit that it was possible -- our coverdiscs went through many hands during compilation, and it was possible.
I asked her to explain more, and it turned out she'd installed a screen saver slideshow application that was on the disc. Hmmm... I looked into it and the screensaver applicaiton merely scanned the user's hard disk for pictures, and then presented them in a slideshow.
Ah. The porn pics weren't on our disc. They were on her computer. I communicated this to her in as many words. She denied any possibility of porn being on her disk but, upon further questioning, it transpired the only other user of the computer was her son... Who was 14. Yeah. OK. But it couldn't be him, she said. He wouldn't be into... this kind of thing. So she continued to blame us, even though she knew that I was probably right. I eventually hung up as she was threatning to call her lawyers. We never heard a peep out of her after this.
Wow. A 2Mbps line immediately saturated *applause*. Next time, I'll be sure to mirror it elsewhere. At least it was bandwidth this time, last time when I was running this off just one server, it started paging and everything was hosed. This time the individual server loads never topped 0.1, although I'm sure this is partly because of the bottleneck :p.
And if anyone is interested in writing for thecoffeedesk.com for /. submissions, PM me or whatever we need writers.
It seems to me that Windows and Office are far too often the culprits of accidental leaks.
No, the culprits are usually idiots. Microsoft can't help it if the majority of idiots out there happen to use their software.
...you think I'm joking.
I'm sure there's a handful of people out there who went out to buy a computer yesterday and had to decide between Windows and Mac--and the reason they walked away with a pre-loaded Vista machine was because they remember that funny ad with Seinfield and that rich dude shaking his ass.
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