I STILL don't buy Sony shit because of that. They booby trapped their product and idiots still buy it. There are plenty of competitors who don't do that.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they just haven’t been caught yet.

It would be naive to think it’s a singular event.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly not singular, but it's very difficult to get away with this undetected because the end user gets physical access to the hardware.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Linux is open source, and they had a malware for 10 years that was undetected.

Having access means nothing if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Rootkits are serious problems.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what malware was that?

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which one? There was the 2020 one by winnti group that attacked Linux servers for a decade, and another in 2021/22 called symbiote, but I don’t know how long that one was hidden for.