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| Subject: | Re: [Full-disclosure] This crap needs to stop\ |
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| Date: | Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:30:36 +1300 |
Steve Friedl to Michael Holstein:
More interesting is *why* there would be a "master image" on a new expansion hard drive in the first place.I just bought a couple of external USB-based hard drives, and the preformatted filesystems had an autorun with the logo of the vendor: I think it was strictly so that the Western Digital icon showed up when in Explorer. As far as I can tell, the drive was otherwise blank.
Also, some drives are bundled with backup (and other "useful") software, and some of those save a few cents per unit by shipping the wares on the drive, rather than pressing CDs, then including them in the boxes, having to replace missing/damaged ones, etc... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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