Tuesday 28 May 2019

If I Offered To Sell You A Laptop,

infected with 6 of the most dangerous viruses so far known,


viruses and pieces of malware are included are, ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, SoBig, WannaCry, DarkTequila, and BlackEnergy, would you buy it, No, thought not, but you would be making a huge mistake, because you could buy it and resell it, making a huge profit if this sale is anything to go on, “The Persistence of Chaos” is a unique art project by Chinese internet artist Guo O Dong in collaboration with cybersecurity company Deep Instinct, 
it consists of a 2008 Samsung laptop running Windows XP SP3 and infected with six of the most dangerous pieces of malware ever created, “These pieces of software seem so abstract, almost fake with their funny, spooky names, but I think they emphasize that the web and IRL are not different spaces. Malware is one of the most tangible ways that the internet can jump out of your monitor and bite you,” the avant-garde artist said, adding that he considered his latest creation “a kind of bestiary, a catalog of historical threats”, together, these six online threats have caused over $95 billion in damages all around the world, over the last two decades. That didn’t stop Guo from putting it up for auction and selling it to the highest bidder, OK lets say I sold it to you for the knockdown price of just say 1 cent, how much has the artist made? bidding stopped at $1.345,001, yes the artist sold the laptop for just over $1.3 million, now where can I get a virus infected laptop cheap and try for the unsuccessful last bidder?


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