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by david_allison 603 days ago
DEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo
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exikyut 601 days ago
Got to the point the EICAR string was described as "very, very random" and became abruptly disinterested fwiw.

It's not random. It's a DOS .COM file encoded as printable 8-bit-clean ASCII. The whole point is that it's executable code.

I stopped watching from there so it's possible this was mentioned later in the video.

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