An Orion spacecraft, secretly constructed in orbit with repurposed Nasa, ESA and Russian equipment, the Messiah's mission is to travel to a comet and alter it's path away from Earth, avoiding an extinction level event. Deep Impact. One of two 1998 summer movies that featured astronauts-flying-off-to-destroy-an-asteroid-thus-saving-earth theme. This is the one without Steve Buscemi suffering from SPACE MADNESS though.
A laptop running 6 pieces of malware that have caused financial damages totaling $95B.
The piece is isolated and airgapped to prevent against spread of the malware.
Malware:
ILOVEYOU
The ILOVEYOU virus, distributed via email and file sharing, affected 500,000+ systems and caused $15B in damages total, with $5.5B in damages being caused in the first week.
MyDoomMyDoom,
potentially commissioned by Russian e-mail spammers, was one of the fastest spreading worms. It's projected that this virus caused $38B in damages.
SoBigSoBig
was a worm and trojan that circulated through emails as viral spam. This piece of malware could copy files, email itself to others, and could damage computer software/hardware. This piece of malware caused $37B in damages and affected hundreds of thousands of PCs.
WannaCry
WannaCry was an extremely virulent ransomware cryptoworm that also set up backdoors on systems. The attack affected 200,000+ computers across 150 countries, and caused the NHS $100M in damages with further totals accumulating close to $4B.
DarkTequila
A sophisticated and evasive piece of malware that targeted users mainly in Latin America, DarkTequila stole bank credentials and corporate data even while offline. DarkTequila costed millions in damages across many users.
BlackEnergy
BlackEnergy 2 uses sophisticated rootkit/process-injection techniques, robust encryption, and a modular architecture known as a "dropper". BlackEnergy was used in a cyberattack that prompted a large-scale blackout in Ukraine in December 2015.
NC10-14GB 10.2-Inch Blue Netbook (2008), Windows XP SP3, 6 pieces of malware, power cord, restart script, malware
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I got the pleasure of hanging out with Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker to talk about the excellent Bright Future (4AD). She also tells me why the movie Deep Impact left such a, um, deep impact on her.