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"Attack of the Wireless Worms"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Eastlake)
Thu Jan 29 14:22:22 2009

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:07:42 -0500
From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com

"Recent research has shown that a new and disturbing form of computer
infection is readily spread: the epidemic copying of malicious code
among wireless routers without the participation of intervening
computers. Such an epidemic could easily strike cities, where the
ranges of wireless routers often overlap."

<http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2009/01/attack_of_the_wireless_worms.html>

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 Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
 d3e3e3@gmail.com

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