There is only one thing that gives any chance - compassion. And that's got a snowball's chances in surviving hell. But there is nothing else but compassion that'll give you any chance at all.
Yup. That young woman who had a seizure, was (supposedly) taken to hospital, then hasn't been heard from since got to me. All of it is tragic and horrible, but of the recent cases, that one stands out for me, cause you just know she's dead. And they won't even fucking give the family any closure.
Oh, well, the fact that we saw it all as "not our problem" until then kinda makes us opportunistic assholes, though. Especially since we exploited the hell out of the post war circumstances. Shit, original concept for the UN gave us the only veto. But we had to bribe the reluctant countries with something.
Oh, don't forget that the horrible evil enemy everyone was fighting took a LOT of inspiration in the mechanics of how to be so evil directly from American politics.
So, helping end the war? Yeah, that's generally a pretty cool thing. Everything else? Ummm, yuck.
The myth we were all taught about the nobility of our country was never true. For fucks sake, the founding of our country was upon the genocide of the native population.
Well, with how many were killed "accidentally" during the removal of homeless encampments in the past couple years, we're kinda at that point aren't we?
Your comment kinda sounds like an accusation. If they don't jack up the price, it's not profiteering. Hell, even if they sell at the price they paid, it still doesn't meet the definition.
But, I agree with the sentiment. Scalpers should be drawn and quartered, at minimum!
What symptoms have you seen to imply there's any malware to start with? Cause, like the other guy said, this sounds like an extremely unlikely attack vector.
Remember, effective malware will not be engineered to target you. Malware is about maximizing return from minimal effort. So it is engineered for the most common installations. Second, it's simple. The smaller, the harder to detect. In other words, it'll target a specific vulnerability of a specific OS. It will not be written to discover what OS it is on, and then adjust what code is executed accordingly. Doing something like that leads to higher chance of of the code being discovered and disabled. Not to mention the higher complexity, the higher chance it will simply fail to execute properly. So instead you create a tiny simple piece of code that will either succeed or fail and just be done. Last, but not least, it is autonomous; if you have to actively take over, you have completely defeated the whole point point of using malware in the first place. Besides, if somebody's going to target you, they're just going to actively hack into your network and you're not going to know anything about it because they'll wipe the logs on their way out.
By the way, if what you've noticed is some change in what's showing up in your log files? That's very unlikely to indicate malware in the first place. Far more likely some low-level part of the code that runs your system is corrupted.
Yeah, this doesn't pass the sniff test. Since kinda backroom deal happened. Cause, a bribe wouldn't be the same as "pressure", would it.