Viruses Find A New Host: Cell Phones

An anonymous reader writes "A NYTimes article (free reg) describes the dangers posed by viruses as 3G and text-messaging become more common, inluding an incident in '01 where numerous phones in Japan began calling 110 (equivalent to 911 in the U.S.). Wired mentions 13M vulnerable phones in Japan alone." (And that was a few years ago.)

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[Catnapster]

This is what happens when you make a technology Garden of Eden. Compared to a computer, a cell phone is a paradise: everything is, on the whole, much closer to perfect. Nearly no errors; hardly any bugs.

Cell phones are largely the domain of Joe Sixpack types. And they could fool Joe Sixpack into thinking all technology was as lacking in bugs as cell-phone software.

Luckily, this potentially dangerous belief is soon to be broken... I always thought text-messaging should be punishable by death, so I say let them have it.