Most viruses back in the day just slammed you with a billion popups and added suspicious files to certain areas of your file system. You could easily see if you were infected or not.
Also, in the past, I've on occasion scanned my machine using malware bytes and other tools and they always came up clean.
Of course that doesn't mean I'm in the clear but if an A / V tool doesn't detect it, then what point is there to run that A / V tool? Truthfully, it's really really easy to write a malicious tool and not have it be detected by any type of software. That's why you should be careful with downloading and running unknown software (which I am very careful of).
If it has no noticeable effect - my life is completely identical - it's hard for me to see it as something negative. If something has absolutely zero effect on my life whatsoever - not even a single advert on my screen - calling it a virus or malware seems unwarranted.
I suppose if my personal data was somehow used to damage someone else, that would warrant calling it malware.
Your stolen personal data could be used to empty your bank account or to commit a crime in your name which could cause permanent damage to your reputation, even if you were exonerated.
This isn't uncommon. There's hundreds or thousands of companies that combine [blockchain x thing], in some vague hope of getting people in the [thing] industry will give them money. There's never a technical reason for this to happen, other than someone thought it was an attractive sounding idea. Generally speaking there's very few things which could be conceivably solved by a block chain, it's not a solution which can be pasted over any interesting sounding problem, and manages to create a multitude of problems when it is.
This sort of thing happens quite a bit actually. In this case, a huge number of residents complained ofvarious illnesses that were supposed to have been caused by a new tower being built in their vicinity. That the symptoms were presented when the tower was not operational is fairly telling that nocebo effect dominates here over any rational or explainable occurrence.
Indeed. My point was that taking claims about effects from people is effectively worthless in a situation where the "threat" is invisible, effects are subjective, and there's a lot of political motivation for belief in them. In a small city nearby people claimed these sorts of effects in an attempt to prevent a cellphone tower being built and "ruining" their view.
What you're saying has quite literally no basis in fact.
Counter to it significantly, there's a heap more powerful non-ionizing transmission than things you have locally in very similar bands, like hundreds of kilowatt TV and FM radio transmitters. Any "effect" you would be seeing is placebo or nocebo depending on the state of your "airplane mode" switch.
Why not do it deterministically then? 600 hashes of MAC addresses suggests that it's a very targeted group of machines, it's the size of a moderately large company, for example.
A notable reason for this sort of thing happening is that the price increased. Solutions which are obviously just toys very quickly grow into problems without you having to do anything.
A "secure", closed source processor. Given the Ledger bootloader had a rather nasty and bluntly obvious bug in it that allowed you to bypass all of the write protection and boot any firmware, I'd give them nearly zero chance of having got anything else right.
Hi, I've written bootloaders before.I know that blacklisting addresses doesn't work, as many memory locations will be mapped multiple times. Strangely, most people that have worked with microcontrollers is aware of this, except for the people who wrote the closed source bootloader at ledger.
