Six pieces of #malware present in the laptop had truly terrible track records.<br />It's estimated that these six programs have logged combined damages of $95 billion between them, says Devangshu Datta.<br />Art installations can use objects ranging from the mundane to the grotesque or exotic.<br />The Persistence of Chaos is deceptively boring at first or second glance.<br />PoC is a standard off-the-shelf laptop, with 11-year-old specs, running an old operating system.<br />That hard drive, however, contains six of the most dangerous computer programs of all time.<br />PoC was billed as the most dangerous PC in the world when it was sold at auction for $1.345 million.<br />Another unit of that same laptop model would be available for less than $100 second-hand.<br />What's more, the buyer will never use PoC because it was only sold on the undertaking that it would be permanently 'air-gapped' -- it will never be connected to a local network, or to the internet.<br />The PoC is nominally a Samsung NC10-14GB 10.2-inch laptop.<br />That's a mid-range model launched around 2008.<br />It runs on Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and is loaded with six different malware.<br />Win XP was released in 2001, before Microsoft launched successors Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10.....Watch full video for more information
