• spamfajitas@lemmy.world
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      There was a brief moment in time when I clicked on the wrong Weird Al remix I found on Limewire and someone decided to use my computer to store and seed their games. Got to play a bunch of things I didn’t have the money for. Good guy hacker?

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        I like to imagine that your Limewire Weird Al fan pulled up their hoodie and said “I’m in”, as accordion music played hauntingly in the background

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      That is why I am a proponent of fibre to the desktop, you can see the bad red bits travel through the cable.

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    Surely this is just using an image as an analogy?

    Like saying the malware is hiding in the code through obfuscation, and only by going through the code base with a fine tooth comb (symbolised by the magnifying glass) could you discover it.

    Or not I don’t know.

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      Surely this is just using an image as an analogy?

      That’s precisely what it is. It’s exactly what you want in a stock image. It straightforwardly, simply conveys a concept without really leaving much room for interpretation. This is an image that’s intended to be used in some poor IT guys lousy malware powerpoint presentation to a non-IT department, and it’s absolutely appropriate for that context.

      But the smug “hurr-durr, that’s not how binary works” delivers more dopamine.

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      Optimism is good… but i doubt that level of basic understanding exists for the creator, lol