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Floppies becoming obsolete, thumb drive recommendation



On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:11:40PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:36:31 -0400<jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Today at a meeting I popped someone's drive into my laptop (SuSE 9.1
> > > 2.6 Kernel). As soon as I popped it in, it automatically mounted and
> > > Konqueror came up. 
> > 
> > Excellent, a new vector for virii (viruses, that is... )
> Almost as good as Windows networks :-)

Oh, that's right - now the v. authors have to come up with both
platform and architecture neutral virii!  :)




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