Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Liz Upton, Director of Communications for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has just published an email where someone was asking how much would it cost them for the Foundation to install malware on its devices in the form of a .EXE file. The email sender was asking for a PPI [price per install] quote.

Comments

Re:.EXE file?

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows 10 core running on Raspberry Pi is freely available from Microsoft.

How many people have actually installed it is a different issue entirely.

Sure

[kimvette]

Sure - install it on a Linux system and include in the documentation:

"Hey! We helped subsidize the cost of your device by including malware on it. If you really, really want to run it, you can install wine but without installing that framework or some sort of Windows emulator it will not run so we felt it is a safe choice to include on the system. It is located in /tmp and will be cleaned up by a cron job after a week, and it isn't marked as executable so even if it were a Linux executable it would not run without your adjusting permissions anyhow, but we urge you out of principle to do an 'rm /tmp/scumbag-sucker-malware.exe' at your first opportunity."

Offer it at a discounted price, and the malware-free version at the usual price. As a bonus dox the malware provider. ;)