They are most likely stolen or imported through a third party.

That would likely get the user and the torrent client banned from the private tracker.

It doesn't even matter if it's a trusted seller. Amazon puts their returned items back with the new products and they stock the items from every seller together. You can have 10 sellers with a genuine item and 1 with a counterfeit item and have a chance of getting the counterfeit item from any of them because they all share the same stock.

They aren't patching CPUs that were released 5 years ago.

They should be patching back to Ryzen 1 since those are still perfectly good CPUs. 5-7 years really isn't that old considering how little improvement there is with each generation.

Yes, they do show up on ebay, but usually not in working condition. Then you have to find someone that can do a restoration. Keep in mind that there may only be one chance to play the tape before it falls apart, so the player needs to be working perfectly.

Fines should be a percentage of annual revenue, not a fixed dollar amount. That way it will hurt a large company just as much as it would a small one.

Do you really think you are going to find a working CD drive in 100+ years? Try finding a working 8" floppy drive and a computer that can interface with one. They are only 50 years old and it's quite a task to read an 8" floppy now.

Data has to be transferred to new media as it becomes available if you want to keep it and be able to read it decades later.

It's not even a Linux vulnerability, it's an issue with the UEFI shim.

How much power does it produce? It must be pretty bad since they don't mention it anywhere in the article.

I'm curious as to whether the router manufacturer included a back door or if the FBI used the same exploit that was used to infect the routers in the first place.

I did that about 10 years ago because I got tired of removing malware for them. They haven't had any malware since then.

There sure has been a lot of CVE's in the last couple of weeks!