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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (13 children)

man i miss these days.

These days not only would it open your CD drive, it would open your tax documents, your crypto wallet, your account cookies, probably even your banking information.

The modern internet fucking sucks dude.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Put the rose tinted glasses to one side. We still had harmful viruses back in the day, difference is these days you are storing more private information "online" so the effect of compromise is larger.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i'm mostly just sad that the funny side of malicious software is gone.

There's no more funny malware. It's all ransomware and stealers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's no more funny malware.

That depends who gets infected.

You or me infected by malware? No thanks!

Egon Mark infected by malware? Absolute hilarity!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

i mean yeah, but that's only situationally funny.

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