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Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by tinco on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:20AM (#11580626)
Not at all, that's like saying floppy disk viruses happened because both PCs and floppy disks were vulnerable. Just imagine the cockpit to be a floppy disk. You plug your phone in, and your infected phone puts a file in the cockpit. Then someone with a vulnerable phone plugs into the cockpit, reads the file and is infected.

Not saying that's how it happened, just that it's possible.

Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by vetinari on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:12AM (#11581091)
The hole in the argument is, why would the second phone read the file and execute it? We are waaaay past autorun.
Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by tinco on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:21AM (#11581175)
Why would the first phone read the file and execute it? ( this is an exercise for the reader, not an actual question )
Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by seanp2k2 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:58PM (#11586319)