ZeroLogik - 039 - 10.18.2006
News & Topics
- AT&T and Bellsouth merge | Link
- Copper wire as fast as fiber | Link
- HP's "memory spot" chips | Link
- Google buys YouTube | Link | Link
- Army builds better night-scope | Link
- Microsoft crippling pirated Vista | Link
- Does advertising in games make them more realistic | Link
- Microsoft and Peter Jackson create game studio Wingnut Interactive | Link
- Bloggers may get sued for what they post | Link
- AT&T DSL - no more contracts | Link
- activeCollab is a free open-source project management system - alternative to BaseCamp | Link | BaseCamp
- Top ten torrent sites | Link
- Perian 0.5 offers many codecs for QuickTime | Link
- Spry AJAX framework from Adobe | Link
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I think Scott is right...couldn't you put a little virus on that spot chip?
Posted by: Laura | October 20, 2006 2:11 PM
Yeah, Laura, that's definitely possible, but not likely. Obviously the publisher and the magazine won't do that, so it'd have to be someone who went to the newsstand before you with some sort of device that could upload/hack the chip's firmware. And even then he's doing them one at a time at a news stand and hoping the magazine he's infecting will be bought and read by someone who will use that chip.
Then the hacker has to hope you don't have anti-virus on your device and that his infection can spread. A lot of work for a really rare pay-off. There are better ways to transmit a virus, so I'd imagine this avenue of attack is a looooong way from being practical.
Posted by: Shane | October 20, 2006 9:13 PM