On 3 May 2005 at 10:16, Rick Glazier wrote:

> As soon as something like that runs on Windows-embedded...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bernie Cosell" 
> > Since we already have viruses that can attack/compromise cell phones, I 
> > wonder 
> > when we'll see the first virus to attack/compromise an ipod..:o)

You're right.. I keep forgetting that cell phones run "Windows/CP" and that all 
those other operating systems on hardware large and small are immune to attack.

[more seriously, the point is that the systems that show up as being vulnerable 
are, by and large, the ones that attract the interest of the attackers.  The 
false-security many folk think they have is oftten more a matter of their not 
being an interesting-enough target than their having any real additional 
security.  Any sufficiently complicated device [e.g., an ipod..:o)] that is an 
attractive-enough target will undoubtedly find that it is less secure than it 
looked like it was. [as firefox users are discovering]

 /bernie\

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