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Palm Virus False Alarm Could Be a Harbinger of Ill Happenstance.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2000 by Fortt, Jon
Sep. 1--A nasty bug on the Internet this week threatened to wipe out the contents of Palm handheld computers. This time, it was a false alarm.
Still, this minor infestation could belie havoc to come. Experts warn that in two to four years, mobile phones, handheld computers, video game consoles, cars and other devices could become infected by software code with the destructive power of the "ILOVEYOU" worm that ravaged computer networks in May.
"It's an example of what's possible. All these things are just little computers with weird interfaces," said Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer at Counterpane Internet Security. "You can write a worm in 1,000 lines of code."
As more computing devices become networked, it opens up the...
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