Re: State of the art in malware owning human?

23 Oct 2015

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On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:05:53 +0300
Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
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What is the state of the art in malware owning the human, not just the
box?
...or DoS the human, making them inoperable.
I seem to recall a raid on an epilepsy support forum, where various animated images were spammed all over the message threads.  No hard data on the results that I know of.
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According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a
person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th
frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors
It sounds a little like the basilisk hacks in _Eclipse Phase_.  Skeptical cat is skeptical.

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