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schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

www.tomshardware.com

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South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware

www.tomshardware.com

schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware — over 600,000 customers report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs
www.tomshardware.com
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ISP sends malware to hundreds of thousands of customers to stop them from using a file-sharing service.
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  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    Well, I guess that’s one ISP everyone will want to avoid…

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      Well, there’s only 3, and they’re all friends, sooo

      On the plus side, the employees got charged

      • Cikos@lemmy.world
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        starlink officially comes to my country a few month back. Since then almost all of the local isp stock has dropped and now they are giving mass discount and increased bandwidth.

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    You didn’t listen when we told you there’s malware in torrents, so we put malware in torrents

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    At the end of the article, the courts side with KT?? Because how dare the isp customers use the bandwidth they bought?

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    Of course it’s KT.

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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      SKT would never.

      • ik5pvx@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Do you mean SKB (or skbb, never figured out how they want to be abbreviated)?

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    1000018985

    My dedicated machine just for torrenting using OpenBSD and two proxies

  • FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world
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    Sharing is caring. Can’t we just get along.

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    So that’s why they are last place and why SKT is just better.

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