As reported by TechCrunch:
Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today [Wednesday]: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company's Rift VR headsets, with users still unable to fire up software on the devices and no word of an incoming fix from the company yet.
Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on the topic has already garnered hundreds of comments. The problem seems to have resulted from Oculus failing to update an expired certificate with the update, which is now leaving users with an error message saying that the system "Can't reach Oculus Runtime Service."
If it must phone home, it is not yours. Words to live, and die, by.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:12AM (4 children)
from the.support FAQ:
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:23AM (2 children)
thinking about it now would be a good time to release a crypto mining malware named OculusPatchMarch2018.exe but I am not motivated enough by monetary gain blame the cheap abundant Canadian pseudo legal weed...
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 09 2018, @02:34AM (1 child)
Reminds me of that time I illegally stole a barebones keylogger written in C++ and with source code easily Googled. With it was probably 20-30 lines which included writing all keystrokes to a text file. Place in startup folder, rename it "svchost.exe," and you're good to go. By the way, the program was too dumb to be detected by antivirus. I was really smart back then, smart enough to figure that out. But geniuses probably stole it and made it send emails and everything. Those guys are really smart.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @01:35PM
Anti-viruses are so good today they will detect blank executables (ie no CRT loader stub) and an entry point that calls ExitProcess right away as malware. Actual malware? They will still not detect any of that.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 09 2018, @02:27AM
Well, you are required to connect your high-end computer to the internet to operate the hardware...
Didn't you know that the Rift only needs the equivalent of a Radeon 5850 to run?
I'd be a shame if anything prevented the ETH miner from installing properly.