Flametoad

Dell XPS 630 – Intel® Core蒂2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB) – 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz -4 DIMMs – Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard – nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB – 500GB – 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache – Dell Premium Optical USB Mouse – Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer [...]

Ordered a new laptop the other day. It hasn’t shipped yet, but this is what I’m getting: Intel® Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache) 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce 8400M GS 160GB Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive, [...]

  I believe I’ve written in the past about a how a load of Seagate hard drives were found to contain trojans straight from the factory in China. Here’s even more chilling news. LCD photo frames from China have also been found to contain trojans. According to the San Franciso Chronicle: "An insidious computer virus [...]

No, I’m not talking about a giant horse. If you read sci-fi, or if you have any imagination whatsoever, then this news item should come as no surprise. Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web [...]

I find it hilarious–yet utterly predictable–that third world school kids are using their free laptops provided by the One Laptop Per Child foundation to view pr0n. I’m only surprised that they skipped LAN parties and DOOM and went straight to the hard core stuff.