[43980] in Cypherpunks
Re: Virus attacks on PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Mon Nov 27 02:55:59 1995
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 23:38:41 -0800
To: Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com>,
Norman Hardy <norm@netcom.com>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: Laszlo Vecsey <master@internexus.net>,
Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>, Moroni <moroni@scranton.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:40 11/26/95 -0800, Thomas E Zerucha wrote:
>That woudl be interesting - even with the speaker "off" the power surge
>causes clicking and other signs. Not to mention that the interrupt count
>would start moving (of course the virus could replace the entire OS and
>would only have to find 300K chunks to hide in).
I looked at the memory usage on my 1meg Mac and 5meg is used for the
system. I have no idea what it is all being used for. A lot can hide
there.
Bill Frantz
