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belltaco ◴[29 Nov 16 15:24 UTC] No.13063568[source]▶

Why does the bios/firmware have no safeguard against this? Imagine a rogue program or virus damaging your hardware, even on OS X.

Also, the headline is jumping to conclusions, this is what the poster wrote:

" It is unclear what the source is, but most people are suspecting the deprecated audio driver on Windows."

realkitkat ◴[29 Nov 16 16:15 UTC] No.13063943[source]▶

Well, that makes up for an interesting ransomware - you have 48h to pay up 4 btc or your shiny new mbp hardware will get borked.

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1. paulmd ◴[29 Nov 16 17:18 UTC] No.13064410[source]▶

I have to imagine that any self-respecting author would use '1812 Overture' just for style points.

Windows on New Macbook Pro Permanently Damages Speaker Due to Poor Drivers