On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Sean Breheny wrote:

> At 06:42 PM 11/20/98 -0000, you wrote:
> >I got a warning of a really nasty one, one of these days. I thought it was
> >pretty cool, so I've translated parts of it (it was VERY long :-))
>
> [SNIP]
>
> ROTFL!!
>
> I like this virus! Anyone got time to write it?? Maybe with activeX
> controls and PICs on various appliances, it might work!<G>

Bite your tongue. By the time you finish school it may happen once a week,
the way things are going. The Internet is full of more or less active
controls and other things with a mind of their own and many idealist
engineers connect microcomputer-controlled household applications to the
web with frenezy and very little understanding of the implications and
security/access control issues involved. The worst thing I saw in this
direction was a guy in Canada who was trying to interface equipment in a
nuclear experiments lab with a CGI script, for online access by
students/staff, and hoped for the passwords to be enough security. I hope
he got to talk with someone professional meanwhile. Sheesh.

Peter