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   The Cobra (cobra@ak.vern.cc)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 13:26:12 JST The Cobra

   veritasium destroys a functional laptop for no good reason

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 01:49:18 JST 翠星石

     • Abhiseck Paira :gnu: :gnuhurd:
     @redstarfish @cobra Depending on the kind of rootkit infestation, if you are using a proprietary OS vulnerable to rootkits, removing the HDD, putting in a new one and reinstalling will likely end in a rootkit installation again.
     
     Some rootkits embed themselves into the BIOS or UEFI image and then re-infect a reinstalled OS (UEFI actually made security worse, as with BIOS's, such rootkits needed to be tailored per-computer or at least per-vendor, while with UEFI, you can make a single exploit jpeg with a rootkit inside that will hijack most UEFI implementations, even across architectures).