October 26, 2007
Be afraid
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.
