A whole room full of "Linda's".
Posted on 12/25/2015 6:42:44 PM PST by Utilizer
Liz Upton, the Director of Communications for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has tweeted out a screenshot of an email where an unknown person has proposed that the Foundation install malware on all of its devices.
In the email, a person named Linda, is proposing Mrs. Upton an agreement where their company would provide an EXE file that installs a desktop shortcut, that when clicked redirects users to a specific website. (Raspberry Pi devices can run Windows as well, not just Linux variants.)
Linda from company Q[edited] is also inquiring Mrs. Upton about the Foundation's PPI (Price per Install).
Judging from the lack of proper English used in the email, which is rare for Business Officers, as Linda claims to be, the email is surely from a person not associated with a professional firm.
There are many companies that function as intermediaries between malware distributors and legitimate businesses, either masquerading as advertising agencies or PR firms.
Just two weeks ago, a report from Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ came out and estimated that torrent site operators made $70 million / €63.8 million per year from distributing malware to their visitors, either in the form of malvertising, or infected torrent files.
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zuckerburg?
Um, is there actually any Raspberry Pi variant that has a built-in OS?
I don’t think so - the OS is installed separately by the user on an SD card or micro SD card, isn’t it?
So this is just a click-bait nothing-burger...
I think people normally put Linux on them, but there is a free stripped down version on Windows 10 for the Pi that could run the .exe file.
“So this is just a click-bait nothing-burger...”
Ya think? Executive gets a spam email in poorly written English offering money for some ridiculous scheme? I don’t think that’s ever happened in the history of the world before this.
Kano’s Raspberry Pi kit comes with its own OS, Kano OS.
It must be a slow news day or something...
Stop the presses - someone sent out a spam email...
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-on-the-raspberry-pi-what-you-need-to-know/
Not sure if Anti-X Linux would run on it, or Plop Linux although their minimum resource requirements might allow it, but Alpine Linux says that their version will run on the Raspberry Pi.
Still funny to think that some would-be malware source thinks an .exe - file will run on a different OS. :)
I'm glad I don't have one. I would waste too much time on it.
I dunno. Sounds like something interesting to while away the time with someday. Not going to play with it for anything that requires real computing power, but for things such as transferring files, browsing the web, and emails -to name just a few things- it might be just the job.
Oh wait, Apple computers already have that covered! Never mind... (ducks!) *snickers*
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