Saturday, January 29, 2005

SC Magazine: "'If infected mobile devices are scary, just thinking about an infected onboard computer..,' said Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Russian firm Kaspersky. 'We do know that car manufacturers are integrating existing operating systems into their onboard computers (take the Fiat and Microsoft deal, for instance).'" Computer viruses in cars! Computers are everywhere. Most are embedded, they perform a dedicated purpose, one will never directly interact with them. But, if they can be infected with a virus then they are no longer embedded, they do more then what the embedding was intended. Very dangerous. Now what about adware? Imagine cruising on the highway and all of a sudden your auto network gets bogged down because an ad for a anatomical enhancing product is trying to use the cd player display screen to get your attention.

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