rtravsky@CORRAL.UWyo.Edu (Richard W Travsky) (02/12/91)
The January 28th edition of Computer World has an article in the
viewpoint section entitled "Fighting Terminal Terroism". The appears
within:
Radio frequency interception is a nearly trivial task today. Using an
"intercept/transmit" model, viruses can be injected into communications
systems with relative ease. The U.S. government has issued contracts
for studies on methods of infecting enemy military computers with
viruses...
I was not aware virus transmission by radio had been accomplished. I
recall a news blurb a few months or so ago about the contracts for
radio transmission of viruses, but I also vaguely remember that the
general conscensus was that it was not possible ('course, that
wouldn't stop the government! ;). So, fact or hype? Anyone have any
information?
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University of Wyoming (307) 766 - 3663 / 3668S931617%UMSLVMA.bitnet@UMRVMB.UMR.EDU (Tim Jung) (02/14/91)
I think that anything mught be possible. It would seem to me that you have to b reak their code, then stop their transmition while sending yours. THe question I have is, is this normal practice during war times, or combat times? Also you might remember the Captain Midnight ordeal, same thing so sataliette u ploading a virus to someone.
eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev) (02/28/91)
>US goverment ... for studies on methods of infecting enemy >military computers with viruses. I think that is a canard. If the soviet military computers are supposed then, though I am not familiar with them, I think that US goverment could try to infect a heap of a scrap metal as well, either via radio or not. Anyway, some time is needed to have an object to infect... In Asia (except the Far East), Africa & L.America the situation is hardly better. So what computers they want to infect ? Japanese and NATO ? Besides that the only way to infect computer via radio is to use radio to send a program. Except that you should send a virus as a legal transmitter of the programs, i.e. you have the same problems as in the case of the simple illegal entering to the network. So the "radio" here is only the magic word to attract the public attention. Eldar A. Musaev, Ph.D., Researcher, eldar@lomi.spb.su Mathematical Institute of Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR