Chinese mini PC gets caught for shipping with factory-installed spyware

[NikoB]

All popular encryption(archive) tools have "back doors", i.e. deliberately weakened encryption system. Including PGP. And in general, the entire asymmetric encryption apparatus is built on the mathematics of elliptic curves.

By the way, the European Court of Human Rights (a funny construction after what happened in 2020, right?) has just formally recognized the inadmissibility of such methods (deliberately weakening encryption and obtaining access keys to correspondence) at the state level: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-230854%22]}

as an obvious path to totalitarianism on the part of the ruling circles. Although this is again only in relation to the actions of the totalitarian authorities of Russia. What about Western governments? And there are facts of violation of these very rights. But who cares about the opinion of some funny court when such things are simply brazenly done with impunity in the quiet of offices?

Always proceed from the fact that there is no safe software, services and products, there are only rational methods that lead to minimizing your own risks to the best of your ability. And for this you need to constantly learn and understand, as well as have critical thinking.

[Aboaisha]

I had the same experience with Beelink mini PC GTR6 I discovered it too late as the hacker already sent messages to get money or he will spread all my data on the black web fortunately the account which he got data from it was an old account which I was not using it for several years but that was very dangerous and annoying the system was not cheap it was about 900 USD

[Bob P]

I had a similar experience with a Chinese mini PC and the name of the company is DreamQuest which I bought off of Amazon. One trojan and two malware viruses were on it and the version of windows 11 was already activated. I gave a one star review and the company that manufactured it reached out to me to offer a full refund probably so I change my review so they can sell more on Amazon to people who just turn it on and use before checking it and doing a scan before going on line. Wiped drive myself and did a reinstall of windows 11 and it has a digital license free from windows at no cost. So to all the people who buy these cheap mini PC's do yourself a big favor and to save yourself from having your personal information stolen do the same!

[NikoB]

So to all the people who buy these cheap mini PC's do yourself a big favor and to save yourself from having your personal information stolen do the same!

Firstly, this no longer helps if Trojans are embedded at the BIOS firmware level or in the device firmware.

Secondly, the majority of the population is so stupid and uneducated in IT, and most importantly monstrously lazy, that they will never implement such recommendations. Moreover, the majority do not read such press and learn about problems when they suffer financially. Losing serious amounts of money or private data teaches such ignoramuses the fastest. People who do not want to understand the risks should be punished, because themselves provoke increased risks for others. This applies to all human life, including "elections".

[RobertJasiek]

Learning about security can greatly reduce risks but not to zero. Affected by malware nevertheless is not deserved. The criminals must still be held responsible.

[NikoB]

In the digital world, the police cannot even find thieves and corrupt officials in offshore areas. Although this is elementary.