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Dell Ships Infected Motherboards
An anonymous reader writes "Computer maker Dell is warning that some of its server motherboards have been delivered to customers carrying an unwanted extra: computer malware. It could be confirmation that the 'hardware trojans' long posited by some security experts are indeed a real threat."
That's some great QA you've got going on over there.
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pwned.
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a feature.
**This call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.**
Customer: Hi, my computer won't POST.
Steve (Samir): Okay, sir, first we must try a few things. Is the machine currently plugged in?
**3 hours later**
Steve: Sir, the problem appears to be a faulty motherboard. Unfortunately your system is out of warranty. Luckily, while the system was operational, our integrated key-logger was able to pull your shipping address and credit card numbers. We have billed you for a replacement system and it should be there in 3-5 business days. Someone will need to sign for it, perhaps your oldest daughter. Justine is turning into a fine looking young-lady, by the way.
Its not bad enough they ship with windows ?
#include bier;
If you consider being able to recognize a McDonalds sign as a sign for McDonalds as your criterion for literacy, then yes, I'd say we've achieved 99% literacy.
There's no schooling like the old schooling. Say, could you hear him screaming down his acoustic coupler?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
God. And all this time I thought that was an upside down double-u.
to assemble a "rich-boy toy"
I read this as "rich boy-toy". The rest of the thread got really confusing after that..
"Coffee is for closers."
That's right, I pay extra to get a genuine, Sony branded rootkit instead of the cheap ones that Dell ships.
Writing to a FLASH is not hard or a secret, in fact I wrote a self destruct years ago to screw with a kid that kept trying to break into our dial up server. It was called "Router Passwords.exe" and it simply tried to write FF FF FF to the beginning of the Bios flash chip for several different common motherboards.
Ahh so that was you... Damn it, do you know how many motherboards I fucked up trying to open that password file? oh well....:)
A lack of money, mostly.
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