10.16.11
Drone virus wrap
Yours truly from an interview on the drone virus non-story catalyzed by squealers to Wired last week (including a couple nifty quotes, one taken direct from 3-mail):
The U.S.’s fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles may not have been poisoned, after all …
Malware and spyware, Smith argues, have probably been found wherever the U.S. has networked computers involved in killing people.
Smith, who wrote one of the first books on computer viruses in 1994, speaks of Windows viruses in Yugoslavia and Serbia around that time; a virus that burrowed into two laptops on board the International Space Station in 2008 …
“Fighting viruses, by very definition, is reactive. It can never eliminate the problem entirely. There’s always a window.???
There’s more from motherboard.tv at the link.