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Re: Viral infection via Serial Cable


From: Christian <evil () g-house de>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 02:49:41 +0200

Über GuidoZ wrote:
even though it's officially a serial connection... the assumtion is
talking about RS232 specs: http://www.google.com/search?q=rs232 I
think we're all aware a virus can most certainly traverse through a
USB connection.)


hm, i fail to see the point here. isn't a serial connection to the outside world "just another link"? who cares, if it is a serial connection or ethernet? maybe i am biased with SLIP under linux - Serial Line IP, so the serial device really gets an ip-address and then it's tcp/ip all the way and no application/virus would care if this is "serial link". or is all data just sent to "com1"?

thanks,
Christian.
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