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  • Encrypt hard drive and keep the key in RAM. Could be recovered with a cold boot attack but that’s very advanced. The DOS virus ONEHALF would run as a daemon encrypring a block on the drive on each boot and intercept reads/writes to the encrypted part as if nothing ever happened. Only after encrypting ½ of the disk, it would reveal itself with an ominous

    Dis is one half.
    Press any key to continue...
    

    The decryption was eventually cracked by ESET and they developed a tool to recover the drive.















  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHairy heart
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    11 days ago

    Unicode is now adding legacy computing symbols with character sets for old computers like PET, even very obscure ones. Meanwhile Android 4.4 was installed on hundreds of millions of devices. Maybe there’ll be a hairy heart one day, perhaps by allowing the modifier sequence of colored heart + hair color?

    They’re trying to emulate the look of the original in the reference design. Otherwise, I don’t see how

    1CC50 𜱐 ALIEN CRAB STEPPING RIGHT
    1CC51 𜱑 ALIEN CRAB STEPPING LEFT
    

    are very much not mirror images of eacb other.