The beggining of Skynet?

[Nai]

Linkage to start - https://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/327178

Saw it on my Yahoo news thing today. Gist of it is there's a piece of malware drifting around out there on USB pen drives and the internet that wants to destroy something in the real world. It could target the Iran power plant. It is rare I give an 'e gads what are we doing?' to mankind any more. But crikey.... Have we gotten to the point now where malware and viruses are going to become world ending weapons? Are we heading for our own judgement day?

[colin1]

If you were going to design a homing missile, you would have to look for its target, then do its job. You wouldnt have it do lots of other mayhem on the way, that could attract attention to itself. Surely ?

Interesting idea though.
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[Nai]

The concept is scary enough, and it sounds like it doesn't attract attention to itself. It just sits there if its not on the right system.

[colin1]

[G]

Interesting, though I don't think we're quite at the level of self-aware crustaceans!

Now it's fairly well known about, most who have a good reason to be worried are likely to be getting rid of it and protecting against it's re-entry pretty quickly I'd expect.

[stinkwheel]

I reckon the simple solution here would be to not connect the computer controlling your nuclear power plant to the internet.
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[L4Isoside]

I quite like the thought of fighting terminators tbh

[GhostRider]

I'm not an expert on computer viruses at all, but surely it would have to be pretty sophisticated to be able to traverse multiple platforms and programming languages that are used across different systems in different industries doing what it is doing.... or do they all have a unified feature which the virus is exploiting?

Still though, it's easily avoided surely? It's like when people hack into the Pentagon.....why is a system which contains some of the most top secret information in the world hooked up to the net in the first place??

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[ncrn]

I always feel companies that allow the use of unsecured USB devices are asking for this kind of thing to happen, I've worked in companies that invest lots of money into keeping their networks safe from external influences but will allow staff to bring in any old USB device and connect them to networked PCs..
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maybe this is that 2012 world ending thing
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[DrDonnyBrago]

This is exactly why those the USB dog tag things sold to motorcyclists are a total waste of money, the NHS/ambulance services wont plug them in.

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[Nai]

I think a large part of Malware and viruses are a lack of education on how to use PC's. I have seen councils entire networks get taken down a couple of times due to a dodgy USB stick.

Im a Linux user myself, have not worried about viruses in years. But for the most part 2-3 Mozilla plug ins and running as a restricted user could squash a good 80%+ of viruses and malware on Windows. But nobody wants the inconvenience of having to put in their password once when they want to install something.

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