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Lexus Computers Infected Via Bluetooth
Country_hacker writes "SCNews is reporting certain models of Lexus have been found with corrupted operating systems in their on-board computers. Evidently the virus got transferred through the Bluetooth interface. It's still unclear whether or not the computers run Symbian."
It's a little gizmo that shows you maps.
You've never used a GPS obviously. A GPS is a little gizmo that records tracks of where you have been, has accurate speed information, gives a route of where you are going, and shows maps.
Information any number of people would be thrilled to have.
Yeah I own a Garmin GPSMap 76. I also owned a Garmin Etrex Vista. You were saying?
This is why OPEN SOURCE SUCKS! It empowers people living in third-world countries to gain FAME (not fortune) by engaging in unethical and possibly criminal activities (such as writing viruses, knocking-off commercial applications and then go crying that software patents are bad for innovation, outsourcing American/European jobs while lowering quality and decreasing the security of personal information and national security). It's not worth it boys and girls. Let's replace IPv4 (should have always been X.25) and the UNIX underpinnings (should have been VMS) with something more sophisticated (and closed source, without a good reason to obtain a license), keeping OPEN SOURCE (formerly Public Domain) code where it belongs --in the dorm rooms of underfunded public education.
We can do this without taking away your fun tools (Apache, PHP, etc..) because Apple and Microsoft get it and if their customers and the industrialized nations we have built rise up and complain, they can offer high-quality replacements as part of their base operating system distributions at no _additional_ charge.
Peer review. Fuhhhhhhhh.. Stupid kids raised in the shadow of communism look what you have done to the world.