Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

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That Other Dude's Persona said:
The PDF talk has got me paranoid. Would an infection be detectable by antivirus scans after the fact or if you don't have access to the file anymore?
Guess I'm done with Acrobat.
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I don't know. If it's a .pdf.exe thing, you might be able to make exe files/other executables just not open from either your file browser or web browser. On Linux you can do it by deleting the Wine ".desktop" file (look where that is in your package manager), or just don't install Wine. For native executables or scripts, my setup with PCManFM always asks and won't do anything by default. I think Ubuntu used to do that as well when I used it about 7 years ago but I'm not sure what happened after they switched to Gnome. If it's actually a PDF reader exploit, you could run every PDF you get/download through dangerzone ( https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone ), but that's a lot of work. If you use Windows you would have to use WSL (the new version that actually runs the Linux kernel) for it to work. What do people think about the zathura PDF reader? Is that more secure than Adobe's product?
 
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Shekelslovakia said:
I can't wait till the crypto boom crashes so that way people kid invest in real money instead of a bunch of ones and zeros that less than half the world knows how to obtain.
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Crypto currency has crashed a few times. "real money" Currency is inherently a proxy
 
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Talmanes said:
How the fuck does that happen to a "Tech Youtuber"?
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UpperEcheleon did a video discussing this exact topic.
For those who don't want to watch it, it's an incredibly sophisticated email phishing scam which masquerades as an email from Adobe saying it has copyright struck a video, everything about the email (Like the actual email, the header, EVERYTHING) looks legit and clicking the link immediately infects your system. This Malware/hack/RAT (whatever) has a kill switch which means it cannot be run or disseminated via a VPN (Which is a thing I've personally seen many big paid-for cheats do) and will just delete itself.
The hack is meant to fully target the person's youtube then change it into one of these exact "Bitcoin Channels" to commit more bitcoin based scams. I've seen several youtubers fall into this and it can ruin careers as many people will see this happening from some "Random" youtube channel and just unsub and not realise. The bigger take away from this is that Youtube hasn't alerted people (Despite this video going over it well and was released 2 months ago and considered itself "Sort of late to the party"), whilst also noting that Youtube's support when this happens is lacking as hell, support can take weeks to sort this shit out and when you consider how this targets specifically youtubers who's entire income is usually their channel this is just another case of Youtube being shit as hell at protecting it's fucking users and content creators.
 
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74164978231 said:
Considering laptops have been a thing for 30+ years you would think "upgradable" laptops would have caught on by now.
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There was a laptop a while ago I forget the brand that was suppose to allow you to upgrade the GPU (among other more normal for a laptop ports) I think in the Nvidia 900 series era. The company never released new cards for it, so it was just a giant waste of money.
 
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That Other Dude's Persona said:
The PDF talk has got me paranoid. Would an infection be detectable by antivirus scans after the fact or if you don't have access to the file anymore?
Guess I'm done with Acrobat.
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Only if it pics up signatures. Viruses can be polymorphic (changes itself) and armored (real obfuscated)
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
This all sounds like more work than just hitting the drive with a hammer.
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Its pretty easy really, especially if you're in an office environment where you have to get rid of multiple drives and don't want to spend a lot of energy banging at each one, plus you can preserve the drive for future use if you think you or someone you know might use it. But a hammer can get the job done.
 
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Its pretty easy really, especially if you're in an office environment where you have to get rid of multiple drives and don't want to spend a lot of energy banging at each one, plus you can preserve the drive for future use if you think you or someone you know might use it. But a hammer can get the job done.
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Exactly. Here's a hypothetical question for paranoids: If you delete a pirated movie on your hard drive(let's say the Dredd movie) and write over that area on the HDD with another pirated movie of the exact same size(pirates of the carribean 1), can you recover the dredd movie while keeping pirates and have double the storage space? The answer is obviously no, data recovery isn't magic compression.

I liked a previous posters idea of encrypting the entire device and tossing the keys, that's a very user accessible low level format in its own way.
Things gets dicey with SSDs and devices where there is no direct control of the storage(phones...) though.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
IOW it's probably "true", but entirely meaningless, because the survey was constructed to give Apple the answer it wanted.
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It wasn’t even 🍎 it was brought up by someone guntguarding for them.

I think framework has a decent chance but I also understand why nobody has really tried to do it before
 
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teriyakiburns said:
IOW it's probably "true", but entirely meaningless, because the survey was constructed to give Apple the answer it wanted.
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Which people that buy laptops over stationary even knows that that something can be upgraded? Or what the components are? I've met people recently complaining that their laptop is slow and they have something old(but still potentially ok) laptops with 4GB of RAM running Win10(after upgrades) AND they have an easy way to access and expand the RAM which would alleviate a lot of the pain. They have no idea that can be done, they have never looked at the bottom of their laptop. Maybe their should be a societal push for laptop owners to hold their computer and squat over a mirror so they can see the undercarriage.
 
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I'm gonna give some credit of doubt here and say that in a team of what like 100 people now SOMEONE is bound to be retarded. still should have practiced and maintained a much higher level of security and had things compartmentalized more. but who am i kidding this is the dumb fucker who couldn't set up a RAID server and fucked over a petabyte of hard drives.
 
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