Welcome to the summer... this 'news' broke about a month and a half ago. Nice to see the BBC are so on the ball! Fair enough their piece is date stamped 16 May - but even still News.com managed to pick this one up two weeks before that even: See http://news.com.com/2100-1039-999541.html
Shock! Horror! Whadda ya know - this hasn't gone down too well with Graham Clulely at Sophos:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/wired.htm l
Naturally Sophos are warning that this is likely to give rise to an increase in virus writing activity... He's probably got a point - but I can't help thinking he's playing into the hands of Wired here who are just after some free publicity. In the same way as we witnessed with the Calgary University debate last week and the week before. These people are becoming infamous on the back of some headline grabbing 'virus scares'.
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Welcome to the summer... this 'news' broke about a month and a half ago. Nice to see the BBC are so on the ball! Fair enough their piece is date stamped 16 May - but even still News.com managed to pick this one up two weeks before that even: See http://news.com.com/2100-1039-999541.html
Shock! Horror! Whadda ya know - this hasn't gone down too well with Graham Clulely at Sophos: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/wired.htm l
Naturally Sophos are warning that this is likely to give rise to an increase in virus writing activity... He's probably got a point - but I can't help thinking he's playing into the hands of Wired here who are just after some free publicity. In the same way as we witnessed with the Calgary University debate last week and the week before. These people are becoming infamous on the back of some headline grabbing 'virus scares'.