Via Dave Ewalt at Forbes, Bruce Schneier writes about the future of computer viruses.
Symptoms don’t appear immediately, and an infected computer can sit dormant for a long time. If it were a disease, it would be more like syphilis, whose symptoms may be mild or disappear altogether, but which will eventually come back years later and eat your brain.
Read the whole thing – fascinating and slightly unnerving, even for a rugged undercover guy like me.
