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		tptacek on March 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirate... This is about as credible as saying that the Michelangelo virus was really intended as a remote wipe tool for IT departments.

mikecb on March 31, 2017 [–]

There's a long tradition there, wasn't BO2K non-ironically marketed as a system admin tool?

tptacek on March 31, 2017 | [–]

No, it was ironically marketed as a system administration tool, for exactly the subtextual reason as this story suggests one might.

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