off-topic - creative thinking about worms
this bit from an article on pbs.org caught my
attention.
a chap responding to cringely's piece about the death of
tcp/ip and pointed out that the creator(s) of code red
hadn't really been very creative. he then went on to suggest
that someone could write a worm that quietly changed one
random 2 to 8 in every excel spreadsheet on a pc... and then
propagated itself quietly.
when would we hear about it? when some financial giant
went bankrupt...
sobering thought, indeed.
sam
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(Sam Varghese)
http://www.gnubies.com
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