"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
As someone who has experienced burnout before: that’s exactly what it looks like.
I haven't seen this thing in action under normal conditions since I just looted the picture off Faceborg, but I imagine it probably shows a slideshow of ads.
Well, it doesn't look like a core dump
Bah humbug, just hook it up to the cloud, WCGW?
I honestly have no idea what they run on, I just know that they exist, and therefore there's a fairly good chance that they at least CAN run Linux.
Perhaps it runs on a Raspberry Pi?
No idea where it's from or what it usually looks like since I just nabbed this off of Facebook, but my guess is to display ads, or perhaps some slo-mo videos of fresh fruit being tossed in an appetizing manner in an attempt to trigger your Pavlovian reflex to buy some of those oranges.
Couldn't find any pictures of that particular setup operating under normal conditions, but here are some similar ones to give you an idea:
Using an actual hard drive for an embedded system like this would be a failure in and of itself.
Unless it literally has to store several hours' worth of HD video content, no reason the entire system couldn't fit on an SD card.
Or an Adafruit, perhaps?
IDK, virus scanners and malware detectors could do these things before AI.
You could search for stuff like directly accessing the
~.sshdirectory, or any invocations ofwgetorcurlto download external scripts and run them through an interpreter and flag those for closer inspection.If you want to get fancier, automate installing packages in an isolated environment (like a container or VM) and keep track of every file system access and network request they make.
Sure, eventually they'll figure out ways to obfuscate those things, too, but it could at least prevent people from doing things in such blatantly obvious ways.