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>Maybe it's because I grew up with personal computers ... (early 8-bit machines, then DOS on a PC) that I find it hard to get scared or excited by local-only ex
by edmccard 12y ago
>Maybe it's because I grew up with personal computers ... (early 8-bit machines, then DOS on a PC) that I find it hard to get scared or excited by local-only exploits like these.
In the 8-bit world, if you don't have a hard drive, and your only "network" is trading floppies with your friends, and "Elk Cloner"[1] is the nastiest virus you have to worry about, then there isn't much reason to be scared.
Nowadays, though...if you consider inserting an infected USB stick to be a local-only attack vector, then Stuxnet was local-only.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner
- DanBC 12y agoBut in general if the bad people have physical access to the machine it's game over and it doesn't matter what OS you're using.
- Anderkent 12y agoThere's different degrees of physical access; it's a different thing if you can reboot the machine or freely mess with its peripherals, or just plug in a usb stick for half a second.