NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users To Turn It Off And On Again (www.forbes.com)

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[-] yildolw@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

They might be thinking of malware spread on floppy disk or a usb stick. A restarting computer with sus media inserted might have treated them as a boot device back in the day and run the executable code with higher privileges

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