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Macbook Air hacked in under 2 minutes

Posted by hank, Sun Mar 30 16:12:00 UTC 2008

So, at the PWN2OWN contest, a MacBook Air was hacked in under 2 minutes. A Vista machine was also hacked a little later, but the Ubuntu machine stood strong despite various attempts. Just goes to show that Macs are definitely not as invincible as many people keep saying they are…

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HP Uses FBI's Software?

Posted by hardwarehank, Sun Nov 05 10:31:40 UTC 2006

Installing windows from an OEM recovery CD has never been something I would try, but apparently my friend is brave enough to do it. While he was in his 9th hour of installing today, he decided to come to his senses and just put Ubuntu back on. Lo and behold, he could not cancel the installation. He tried CTRL-ALT-DEL, but to no avail. Then, something magical happened. ALT-TAB produced this: Wow. What is FBI Gui Manager? Why is it packaged with an HP Recovery disc? I couldn’t find much information online about the specific product, but there seemed to be some chatter about it being produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation themselves. I wonder if they’re remotely monitoring HP boxen. So, if you have a default installation of Windows from HP or Compaq, or have reinstalled using the recovery discs, you should switch to Linux so you aren’t spied upon.