Monday, March 17, 2008

Pre-installed viruses

I found this article alarming. I guess because I love gadgets and it had never occurred to me that they might come with extra "features", such as pre-installed viruses and password-stealing programs!!! Especially since I haven't tried loading pictures on the digital picture frame that I bought for my mom. I wasn't looking forward to the task before, and now I am really not!

After reading it my too-active imagination took it one step farther.... this could be a whole new type of sneaky warfare that manufacturing countries could use on nations like the U.S. that do a lot of outsourcing. Are we going to all have to have a second computer dedicated to this kind of stuff?

1 comment:

julie said...

uh oh. i think you just described the plot to a new michael douglas movie or something! aaaaaaaah!