Re: A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft.

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>]

For a description of this sort of thing, read _Kaleidoscope Century_,  
_Candle_, and _The Sky So Big and Black_ by John Barnes.

On Sep 21, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

>  ROFL :-)
>
>   Yikes!  I never thought about that.  Yikes again!  Given the rate  
> that
> viruses infect the average user, the world economy would screach to  
> a halt
> as there would be a mass exodus out of office buildings, homes, etc  
> with
> people with backpack's full of pamphlets to hand out to those few  
> that are
> lucky enough to not be infected.
>
>   The question now would be, if you touch or accept the pamphlet,  
> are you
> now infected and have to start handing out your own?
>
>    Yet another reason not to take those pamphlets from the guys on  
> Vegas
> Strip ;-)
>
>
> Michael P. Blanchard
> Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I
> Office of Information Security & Risk Management
> EMC ² Corporation
> 4400 Computer Dr.
> Westboro, MA 01580
> email:  Blanchard_Michael () EMC COM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Webster [mailto:craig () xeriom net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft.
>
> Hi,
>
> >     Interesting side line, when my in-game character in EQ2  
> > contracted the
> > plague for the first time, In-Game, I was hospitalized in real  
> > life for
> > pneumonia, 4 days in the hospital, 2 weeks at home on the couch/ 
> > bed.  Good
> > thing my laptop can play EQ2, otherwise I would have gone out of  
> > my skull
> > with nothing to do than watch day-time TV! :-)
>
> Coincidence or a preview of something more sinister?
> Perhaps from now on when a user catches a computer virus they'll start
> handing out pamphlets on the street? A sort of manual spam zombie?
>
> Craig
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