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Certified “Pre-Owned” Items

Time and again I read stories about products that come pre-pwned with malicious software. Recently a few people were ruminating about pulling together a list of these battery chargers, digital frames and the like.

Low and behold one already exists. Something tells me I should have assumed that it would be found here at attrition.org.

From Attrition.org:

For reasons unknown, vendors occasionally fail to maintain quality control over the media they ship. Whether it is CD-ROM, DVD, USB or some other form of media, it may contain viruses, trojans or even drug-runner music. When this happens, the software you receive obviously can’t be trusted in any fashion, and installing software from already compromised media immediately puts your system’s integrity in question.

For more on this be sure to check out their page.

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