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How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks

Posted by timothy on from the nice-thing-about-free-software-is-no-cracks dept.

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."

2 of 241 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This doesn't explain everything by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can how? He just accidentally the install.

  2. Re:This doesn't explain everything by Toll_Free · · Score: 0, Troll

    lol.

    Yeah, linux is great. Install friendly, drivers always included or an easy download away (no fwcutter trying to get broadcom drivers), etc., etc., etc.

    STFU fanboi. Last time I tried to compare two linux .conf files, they where MASSIVELY different.

    Not so with windows XML files, unless your some ass that just bashes MS and doesn't actually KNOW or PRACTICE what your talking about.

    --Toll_Free

    --Toll_Free