Comment 9X6X Re: New heights in hyperbole

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Computrace backdoor exposes millions of PCs

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New heights in hyperbole (Score: 2, Insightful)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2015-05-26 13:56 (#9SCT)

"Nearly every PC" has this crap? Come on now. First of all, it sounds like it's almost entirely restricted to laptops. Certainly my laptops don't have it, and it's for damn sure none of my many desktops and servers do.

Re: New heights in hyperbole (Score: 2, Informative)

by gravis@pipedot.org on 2015-05-26 18:06 (#9SZF)

unless you looked at the firmware for each laptop you can't be sure. a lot of big vendors put it on their boards* and some vendors just remove the options from the "BIOS Setup Utility" but it's still there.
* #5-scale-of-potential-problem" rel="nofollow">https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/58278/absolute-computrace-revisited/#5-scale-of-potential-problem

Re: New heights in hyperbole (Score: 2, Interesting)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-05-26 18:59 (#9T2F)

There needs to be a moderation option for "syntax Error"

Re: New heights in hyperbole (Score: 1)

by gravis@pipedot.org on 2015-05-27 15:15 (#9W09)

i reported the bug the other day. see: http://bugs.pipedot.org/view.php?id=51

Re: New heights in hyperbole (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-05-27 20:11 (#9WJT)

Re: New heights in hyperbole (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-05-28 03:48 (#9X6X)

FWIW, I think we could do without the regex entirely. A clever idea, but only extremely rarely does it come in handy. Even linking to stories and comments, people usually want link/alt text. And the false positives are significant. Probably lots of people wasting time wondering why would someone irretrievably link a serial number: Serial #87654321
etc.

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