http://www.hypocrisy.nu/2008/05/13/swedish-home-electronics-chain-teknikmagasinet-sells-trojan-infected-usb-memory-sticks/ A blog about modern media, PR, society, technology and how they all bind together. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.hypocrisy.nu/2008/05/13/swedish-home-electronics-chain-teknikmagasinet-sells-trojan-infected-usb-memory-sticks/comment-page-1/#comment-26945 Swedish home electronics chain... [ Hypocrisy Weblog ] Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:57:38 +0000 http://www.hypocrisy.nu/?p=116#comment-26945 [...] 13th 2008 1:14pm [-] From: hypocrisy.nu [...] [...] 13th 2008 1:14pm [-] From: hypocrisy.nu [...]

]]> http://www.hypocrisy.nu/2008/05/13/swedish-home-electronics-chain-teknikmagasinet-sells-trojan-infected-usb-memory-sticks/comment-page-1/#comment-25805 Paul Mohr Tue, 13 May 2008 13:25:23 +0000 http://www.hypocrisy.nu/?p=116#comment-25805 I have worked in software distribution and this is one of the most common places that effective and wide ranging viruses get introduced. I had an employee who decided to do this to the distribution for their own profit. Sometimes it can be done by a competitor. It requires constant vigilance by the manufacturers and attention to their own houses. In my case the only cost was firing an employee, rewriting all the disks, and a delay. I personally checked every product myself for this very reason. I have worked in software distribution and this is one of the most common places that effective and wide ranging viruses get introduced. I had an employee who decided to do this to the distribution for their own profit. Sometimes it can be done by a competitor. It requires constant vigilance by the manufacturers and attention to their own houses. In my case the only cost was firing an employee, rewriting all the disks, and a delay. I personally checked every product myself for this very reason.

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