Hey, why in the world would you buy one of those piece of trash Microsoft Surface Laptops? Oh, yeah, because Microsoft says that with its new Windows 10 S operating system,
'no known ransomware' runs on Windows 10 S"
so ZDnet tried to hack it. Three hours later
Quote:
"We considered leaving the laptop playing 'AC/DC Thunderstruck' on loop for you, but we didn't want to upset your neighbors or any pets!" he joked.
"We could even take something like Locky, a DLL-based ransomware, and run it so that it would encrypt all the files in your documents and request a key by setting the wallpaper," he said.
Though he was given permission, Hickey stopped short of installing the ransomware, citing the possible risk to other devices on the network. "We've proved the point enough," he said. "We can do whatever we wanted," he said.
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Yes, the computer was wide open to malware. As usual Microsoft's version of security is to cripple the user's ability to use the machine as he wishes while rolling out the red carpet to malware.
This malarkey has been going on since the grandiose "protected system directories" of Windows 7 where we couldn't play Silent Hunter 4 but malware staged block parties. Microsoft has refused to buy a vowel and can't come up with any security scheme better than "if we cripple it so bad it won't work it's bound to be pretty secure." Buy Microsoft and you're buying trouble.