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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Virus

Reports of a new cell phone virus mention that the virus spreads via Bluetooth technology embedded in the phone. BMWnow makes cars with bluetooth.

Imagine now a car infected with a virus. Since bluetooth is wireless, the car could infect anything it drives past-- other vulnerable bluetooth devices such as cell phones, and other cars.

In the past, protecting your computer from viruses was as simple as not opening an attachment. But imagine a self executing, self replicating virus as it runs amuck in computers and imagine this scenerio:

Rich white chick has an infected Nokia. She gets into her new BMW equipped with bluetooth, and its infected. She leaves New York via the GWB, infecting the EzPass computers. The virus spreads through the EzPass system and starts infecting cars throughout the metro region. A NJ State trooper gets off the turnpike. As his car passes through the toll plaza, his car's computer is infected. He passes into a secure location of Newark airport, infecting baggage computers and the control tower. The control tower broadcasts the virus to a passing 777. The plane then infects the electronics of passengers on board. The plane lands in Los Angelos, infecting computers at LAX. A passenger on the 777 boards another plane bound for Mexico. As the passenger disembarks in Mexico, the virus comes to an end, finding no known compatible devices. But the damage has been done. The entire western world is infected with a malicious bluetooth virus.

Of course this whole scenerio will be avoided when the Monkey Controlled Robots take over the world and destroy humanity.

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