(Reposted from Reddit don’t kill me 😭)
- xia ( @xia@lemmy.sdf.org ) 24•9 months ago
Can confirm. I have not paid, and I am under-rested.
- vrek ( @vrek@programming.dev ) English21•9 months ago
My favorite story about this is I had a friend who was smart but quick to jump to conclusions and not technical.
He had a roommate who sometimes used his computer. He comes home one day to a message on the screen, full screen saying “This computer is locked by the NSA. We have detected illegal activity including child pornogry(yes spelt that way). You may send $300 in Walgreens gift card codes to (some yahoo email address I forget) or you will be arrested. This computer can not be unlocked.”
He panics thinking his roommate did something, shut down the computer, removed the hard drive and memory.
Two years later I hear about this and tell him it’s fake and let me take a look at it. Turns out the computer was not" locked". I got into the system by booting into safe mode. There was a program added to the start up folder of the start menu(this was in windows xp). That program literally just launched a window with that message, set to full screen with no close button. Out of curiosity I rebooted the system message popped up and I just hit alt-f4 and had full control of the system. These scans are designed for people to panic and not think critically.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•9 months ago
to be fair it’s entirely believable that this government would do that
- Tau ( @Tau@sopuli.xyz ) 7•9 months ago
under the rest
- drasticpotatoes ( @drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•9 months ago
Please don’t put me beneath everyone. I won’t be able to breathe.
Thank goodness! I need a rest