mikkohypponen's comments

On: Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investm...

[mikkohypponen]

Can confirm.

On: One.one.one.one

[mikkohypponen]

You can ping one.one.one.one and it resolves to 1.1.1.1.

On: Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes ...

[mikkohypponen]

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable.

On: Keynote: Robot vs. Robot – Mikko Hypponen [video]

[mikkohypponen]

I think it was pretty good.

On: F-secure lab 20 years ago

[mikkohypponen]

Sorry about the cables.

On: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled ...

[mikkohypponen]

Correct, it's a PE file.

On: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled ...

[mikkohypponen]

Author here. I've been running Windows since 3.0 and I copy my old tool folders with me whenever I change machines or upgrade the OS. This GZIP.EXE is the oldest EXE I have in my \ntbin tool folder that still works. The folder has 579 EXE files.

[justinpaulson → mikkohypponen]

> that still works.

I think that is the point being made. This exe is cherry picked as the oldest working exe, it isn't like every 30 year old exe in that folder still works.

On: Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled ...

[mikkohypponen]

Some stuff works fine. See https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1692552661374005450

[blibble → mikkohypponen]

just don't try anything that used safedisc

On: TROOPERS23: Keynote – Mikko Hyppönen

[mikkohypponen]

Troopers is a great event. In the beginning of my talk, I'm referring to a photo the organizers showed just before my talk. This is the photo: https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1686039840788299777

On: I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag (1993...

[mikkohypponen]

How are going to find similar, historic one-offs that are made today, in 30 years time? Today they are made on Slack, Discord and Signal. No archive.