Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Can your car catch a virus from your phone? 

This is too funny. The techies at antivirus firm F-Secure borrowed a Toyota Prius (same phone interface as the Lexus) and tried to infect it with a mobile phone virus.

All they really needed to do for security was to drive out in the country, but in a fit of showmanship they put the Prius in an underground bunker for the virus testing. They have a picture at their site.

Oh, you want to know the results? The Prius computers shrugged off everything the phone sent. Everyone expected that from first principles but it was impressive how well the Prius handled unusual input.

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