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I don't think the dust has settled on whether this was manmade or not?
Even if it was manmade the responsibility for that should fall on the international scientific community rather than the Chinese government and even less so on the people. The lab in Wuhan was not scientifically isolated, funding came from abroad. Similar research has been conducted elsewhere. Of course it's still important to find out the truth on the matter.
I bought a laptop once. It came with windows pre-installed. And a bunch of bloatware. And 101 things that phoned home under the guise of checking that a driver was up to date. And Norton. The definition of malware is open to large interpretation.
Some would say, not without merit in my opinion, that the malware part started with Windows itself.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
But even if we aren't that stringent with the definition of malware, we had malware preinstalled on our computers quite some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Self-signed_root_certific...
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You cannot possibly blame the Chinese government or the people for the Corona virus. That's just insane. Granted, the official response wasn't good. But a virus pandemic was ever only a question of time. It's unlikely it could have been prevented wherever it had started.
Hug of death probably so I cannot read the article. Anyway that's the reason why I don't buy Chinese crap anymore. I'm not saying that I don't buy anything made in China, almost everything is made in China, but everyone should avoid Chinese crapware. If something doesn't match the description send it back, if you find random executables that you cannot identify send it back, if you are asked to register on some weird…
that's the reason why I don't buy Chinese crap anymore. I'm not saying that I don't buy anything made in China, almost everything is made in China, but everyone should avoid Chinese crapware. This is one of the big reasons that Apple locked down its Lightning/USB ports so hard. There were tons of fake Apple chargers flooding the market that contained exfiltration circuitry, among other problems. It was a huge topic i…
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Why are you being downvoted? Avoiding chinese products is a good thing. Thanks for the tips.
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Also, the book "Poorly made in China" is extremely interesting.
20 years ago, china hide 2nd network card that was in listener mode, transmitting documents at random times, mostly peek. This was at a research company. How it was discovered. We put a card on listening/prem mode and mirror everything for that subnet the printer was on. I thought I screwed it up with the double mirror/traffic. when investigating why the issue, we found nothing wrong with the config, only when we plu…
Given that Windows 7 _Ultimate_ was installed on what is essentially an OEM machine, it's very likely that it's a pirated copy with a "home brewed" license key. I think the most reasonable explanation is that either the OS was sourced already infected, or the crack tool they used was infected.
You know what? I don't care anymore. When this type of thing happens it's almost always China. Whether it's intentional malware or a lack of QA, how could one tell? They have such a reputation for both I don't know why we still let their electronics into our countries.
It could only happen in China - because the author bought dubious stuff from unknown third party on AliExpress. Craiglist scams happen mostly in US because people don't use it elsewhere.
Sort of like how you shoot the arrow first and then draw a target around it, 100% bullseye.
Hug of death probably so I cannot read the article. Anyway that's the reason why I don't buy Chinese crap anymore. I'm not saying that I don't buy anything made in China, almost everything is made in China, but everyone should avoid Chinese crapware. If something doesn't match the description send it back, if you find random executables that you cannot identify send it back, if you are asked to register on some weird…
We should have never allowed them to become this powerful. Their ideology is toxic and incompatible with ours.