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The Forbes 30 Under 30 list came out this week and it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list.
On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom. The exploit used was a version of hackenfreude.
Forbes has recently taken some flack from Soylent News readers for its heavy-handed approach to ad blockers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday January 12 2016, @06:27AM
I agree 100% and would only add why would I slam the weak ass little ARM chips in the average home router when even my users on 10 year old systems have more cycles than they can ever use thanks to how insane the IPC on a multicore X86 chip is?
Hell I replaced the Q6600 I was using at the shop for my late father's Phenom I 9600 quad for sentimental reasons, figuring it would probably be struggling, what did I find? Even with multiple downloads and a pile of websites running AND background music blasting I still rarely went above 50% CPU and never once had the auto OC kick in, so why would I want to slam the ARM chip so hard its about to melt to do router blocking when you have programs like uBlock and ABP that will do it on the system where there is plenty of MHz left unused?
Its easy to update on the PC, won't hurt the system performance, not to mention as you pointed out you slam the router the whole network goes to shit, so it just doesn't make sense to go through all that to do it on the router.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.