on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:32:40PM +1000, Sam Varghese (sam@gnubies.com) wrote: > 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... Who's to say it hasn't happened. Check the Down Jones average lately? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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