FBI removes Chinese PlugX malware from US computers

[Pew]

they don't have the utility of the smartphone though. I'm talking about the perfect product that gives you utility of a smart phone with none of the downsides.

Negative because the services required by what could be considered essential-only are used by other non-essential apps. Like @alarmguy said, it would have to be user or parental controlled otherwise the manufacture would be shooting themselves in the foot with sales.

 

[b_b]

Negative because the services required by what could be considered essential-only are used by other non-essential apps. Like @alarmguy said, it would have to be user or parental controlled otherwise the manufacture would be shooting themselves in the foot with sales.

positive, that isn't the case, because you could pay an additional service fee for the usage for the apis'. why would the phone manufacture care? they are just selling the phone with some preinstalled apps that you are paying for with the fees.

 

[wwillson]

In modern times who on earth uses usb flash drives and what business out there allows them to be read or mounted to their computers.

My employer treats every USB storage device as infected. We cannot move any data to/from USB ports.

 

[BaronHK]

It's not at all shocking that disinfection involved telling the malware to delete itself.

That's what I did when a worm infected a Windows 2000 system years ago, before I used Linux (and now ChromeOS on a Chromebook Plus) and never get malware. It used IRC for command and control purposes. I just entered the room disguised as an infected computer and watched the guy for a few days. I have no idea exactly who was doing that but they seemed to be Russian. Could be organized crime, or the government.

The Chromebook I use now runs all my old games and emulators, and has a Linux environment so I can use anything from Debian (LibreOffice, yt-dlp, emacs, etc.)

If Google ruins it, I'll probably move to a Pi.

 

[robbobster]

Most younger folks that I work with, straight out of college don't care for TikTok anymore; it was more of a phase.

The best way to kill a platform loved by young people, is to get a bunch of old people using it.

Besides marketplace, I don’t think anyone under 50 uses Facebook anymore

 

[rijndael]

Now, in a business environment, nobody should be using them with the exception of very specific conditions (like updating the firmware on an X-Ray machine for example).

If you drop gold plated ones in your work parking lot, nearly 100% of the people will plug them in to their work PC.

Regular ones, with some dents in the plastic shell, aren't nearly as convincing to most people.

 

[ripcord]

One of my previous employers had some laptops you could checkout for international travel. All the USB ports were filled with super glue.

 

[Owen Lucas]

The best way to kill a platform loved by young people, is to get a bunch of old people using it.

Besides marketplace, I don’t think anyone under 50 uses Facebook anymore

That's why Zuckerberg was tryign so hard to get TikTok. I think Larry Ellison owns part of it now?

TT would supercharge FB but they have instagram as well, which I don't really understand lol.

One of my previous employers had some laptops you could checkout for international travel. All the USB ports were filled with super glue.

Yikes, I thought superglue was an electrical conductor. I guess if you disable the port but is power still power for charging purposes?

 

[OVERKILL]

One of my previous employers had some laptops you could checkout for international travel. All the USB ports were filled with super glue.

Problem now is that most of them use USB-C for charging.

 

[wwillson]

One of my previous employers had some laptops you could checkout for international travel.

We were not allowed to take any company device out of the US period. If you had to travel internationally for business, you were granted a temporary device that would get wiped after your return.

I loved the policy because when I was on vacation, I was really on vacation.

If we ever got caught using a work devices for personal use, the result was termination. They weren't kidding, I knew a guy that I worked with who let his fiance use his work laptop to look at wedding dresses and they fired him.

 

[4wd]

Our USB’s have been utility only for over a decade …
We carry Dell laptops and iPhone’s all over the world …
(Login can be slow due to security ramp ups) …
They are all monitored 24/365 - endless updates …
Hilarious - as I’m typing on my iPad - the Dell pops another software update

 

[Owen Lucas]

If we ever got caught using a work devices for personal use, the result was termination. They weren't kidding, I knew a guy that I worked with who let his fiance use his work laptop to look at wedding dresses and they fired him.

Yikes, that's pretty rough, but he should have never had her touch the laptop, that's worse than looking at wedding dresses by yourself IMHO.

When digital cameras started becoming more widespread, and still relatively expensive, at work we had a few guys not only take personal pictures, but upload them to the company servers (in error). For various reasons you can't get them deleted easily and it requires a lot of escalation to do so.

 

[wwillson]

Yikes, that's pretty rough, but he should have never had her touch the laptop, that's worse than looking at wedding dresses by yourself IMHO.

Yeah, it's pretty harsh and it does show how serious the company is about protecting assets.

 

[JohnnyG]

Boomers and GenX already gave them our industries and money. Might as well continue the trend.

Most younger folks that I work with, straight out of college don't care for TikTok anymore; it was more of a phase.

Oh, that's right. Today's go to is Instagram, right?

 

[rijndael]

Snapchat an Insta

 

[ripcord]

We were not allowed to take any company device out of the US period. If you had to travel internationally for business, you were granted a temporary device that would get wiped after your return.

I loved the policy because when I was on vacation, I was really on vacation.

If we ever got caught using a work devices for personal use, the result was termination. They weren't kidding, I knew a guy that I worked with who let his fiance use his work laptop to look at wedding dresses and they fired him.

That's what these laptops were. We didn't have to use them if going to Canada but we did for other places like China... Which always seemed futile to as half our devs were located there

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

That was arguably Blackberry, and now look at them, lol.

I miss my BB10. It was a cool phone.

 

[Plumb Bob]

Yikes, that's pretty rough, but he should have never had her touch the laptop, that's worse than looking at wedding dresses by yourself IMHO.

When digital cameras started becoming more widespread, and still relatively expensive, at work we had a few guys not only take personal pictures, but upload them to the company servers (in error). For various reasons you can't get them deleted easily and it requires a lot of escalation to do so.

Former employer warned you one time if you sent any non-work related picture through email. Second or third time could lead to termination.

 

[alarmguy]

The best way to kill a platform loved by young people, is to get a bunch of old people using it.

Besides marketplace, I don’t think anyone under 50 uses Facebook anymore

I follow Facebook as one of my large holdings depending on time of the year.
62% of the users in the United States are under the age of 44
The largest demographic by large margin is the 24 to 35 age group
18 to 24 And 35 to 44 are virtually tied and if you include the under 18 age group in that 18 to 24 demographic that makes them solid second place highest users

Only 14% of the 55 to 64 and 12% 65 + age group use Facebook