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That post came like a bolt from the blue - not the usual screwing around.
Note that context change and pun are really one in the same.
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God Bless You for this one!
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Rich sources ? (7)
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CROESUS?
Proverbially rich guy, anagram of SOURCES.
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You know Paul - back in the winners enclosure 
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It's more your ASCII / Unicode knowledge than your hex though ...
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*lol* you ought to be wearing one 
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What does it mean, for those lazy ones like me who do not want to bother translating ?
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It's the ASCII / Unicode character numbers for the company name. (And they have had enough free plugging already ...  )
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lol no it says "Neurotypical" with the Y backwards
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0x48 0x65 0x6c 0x6c 0x6f 0x20 0x57 0x6f 0x72 0x6c 0x64 0x21
would be a more applicable, programmer oriented, message for something worn outdoors
(unless my hex is wrong)
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Your hex / Ascii is fine.
The World wrote: Hello yourself!
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Big-endian or little-endian?
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lol you should totally be wearing one
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She fine.
Aw, you meant the encoding
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Strut
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yep 
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I was reading this article where the author says this is possible:
Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks - The Atlantic[^]
Quote: I sent a forensic image of its working memory to a leading expert on the security of the Macintosh operating system. He found unexpected daemons running on my machine, serving functions he could not ascertain. (A daemon is a background computing process, and most of them are benign, but the satanic flavor of the term seemed fitting here.) Some software exploits burrow in and make themselves very hard to remove, even if you wipe and reinstall the operating system, so I decided to abandon the laptop.
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Off tbe top of my head, one could write a virus that modified the BIOS of a computer so that it loaded at every reboot. This would then inspect the installed operating system and download the appropriate daemon from the control website.
I'm certain that real virus writers could be much more creative.  
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Depends how you do it - there are MBR viruses (and I think I've heard of GPT viruses as well) which can survive a reformat of the system partition. It's also possible to infect the BIOS / UEFI, though that's a lot harder, so they are pretty rare: BIOS Virus - Microsoft Community[^]
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To answer the question in the subject line:
Yes, any product having an update-able bios can retain a malware.
Which is most hard drives, motherboards and graphic cards.
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