OMG! World’s Most Dangerous Laptop Sold For $1.3 Million | Techinsoul
- 4 years ago
Six pieces of #malware present in the laptop had truly terrible track records.
It's estimated that these six programs have logged combined damages of $95 billion between them, says Devangshu Datta.
Art installations can use objects ranging from the mundane to the grotesque or exotic.
The Persistence of Chaos is deceptively boring at first or second glance.
PoC is a standard off-the-shelf laptop, with 11-year-old specs, running an old operating system.
That hard drive, however, contains six of the most dangerous computer programs of all time.
PoC was billed as the most dangerous PC in the world when it was sold at auction for $1.345 million.
Another unit of that same laptop model would be available for less than $100 second-hand.
What's more, the buyer will never use PoC because it was only sold on the undertaking that it would be permanently 'air-gapped' -- it will never be connected to a local network, or to the internet.
The PoC is nominally a Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-inch laptop.
That's a mid-range model launched around 2008.
It runs on Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and is loaded with six different malware.
Win XP was released in 2001, before Microsoft launched successors Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10.....Watch full video for more information
It's estimated that these six programs have logged combined damages of $95 billion between them, says Devangshu Datta.
Art installations can use objects ranging from the mundane to the grotesque or exotic.
The Persistence of Chaos is deceptively boring at first or second glance.
PoC is a standard off-the-shelf laptop, with 11-year-old specs, running an old operating system.
That hard drive, however, contains six of the most dangerous computer programs of all time.
PoC was billed as the most dangerous PC in the world when it was sold at auction for $1.345 million.
Another unit of that same laptop model would be available for less than $100 second-hand.
What's more, the buyer will never use PoC because it was only sold on the undertaking that it would be permanently 'air-gapped' -- it will never be connected to a local network, or to the internet.
The PoC is nominally a Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-inch laptop.
That's a mid-range model launched around 2008.
It runs on Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and is loaded with six different malware.
Win XP was released in 2001, before Microsoft launched successors Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10.....Watch full video for more information