{"id":317,"date":"2007-06-18T08:17:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2007-06-18T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T13:43:23","slug":"new-computer-virus-targets-calculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"New Computer Virus Targets Calculators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it’s official: everything is infectible. Wired’s Threat Level blog reports that two new “proof-of-concept” computer viruses* target the TI-89 graphing calculator. They obviously can’t spread to another calculator directly, but instead wait for the user to move an infected file through the TI-89’s serial port, which can connect to a PC or directly to another TI-89.

McAfee’s Igor Muttik says portable Turing-complete gadgets are the next malware petri dish. Oh, goody.

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*Technically the plural should be “virii,” but writing that certifies you as a Grade-A Wonk so I shall abstain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it’s official: everything is infectible. Wired’s Threat Level blog reports that two new “proof-of-concept” computer viruses* target the TI-89 graphing calculator. They obviously can’t spread to another calculator directly, but instead wait for the user to move an infected file through the TI-89’s serial port, which can connect to a PC or directly to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}