Chinese artist Guo O Dong’s creation 'The Persistence of Chaos' – a virus-packed laptop - sells for over $1.3 million
A simple laptop computer loaded with six potent viruses and dubbed by Chinese artist Guo O Dong"The Persistence of Chaos" sold at an online auction for more than $1.3 million.
On Tuesday his creation "The Persistence of Chaos" rocked the art world, selling for more than $1.3 million in a New York online auction.But loaded onto its memory chips are the computing world's equivalents of the most deadly infectious diseases: "I LOVE YOU" from 2000, "Sobig" of 2003, "MyDoom" , "DarkTequila" , "BlackEnergy" , and the most notorious of all, the "WannaCry" ransomware from two years ago.
Guo is an internet artist "whose work critiques modern day extremely online culture," the auction site, organised by cybersecurity group Deep Instinct, said.The computer, viewed via an online video stream, is harmless in its auction state – turned on, but not connected to any network or the internet.
But it comes with an ominous warning to the buyer not to unleash its pathogenic programs – possible by unplugging its connection hardware, or by simply inserting a thumb drive.
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