This autorun vulnerability reminds me quite strongly of a sci-fi novel I read several years back called The Warriors of Dawn, by M. A. Foster. This novel contains three species, one of which is a sort of not super- or subspecies but a kind of "side" species of humans, created by genetic manipulation of the human genome. Another is a subspecies of humans that are kind of kept as slaves or playthings on an alien world. The third is of course, humans.
In the novel the subspecies (who had of all things the pecul
QR sploits (Score:4, Funny)
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Google has brought Autorun vulns to the mobile world! Innovative!
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Google has brought Autorun vulns to the mobile world! Innovative!
That is one of the big issues with devices that, by design, freely offer up information to you rather than wait for you to retrieve it.
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This autorun vulnerability reminds me quite strongly of a sci-fi novel I read several years back called The Warriors of Dawn, by M. A. Foster. This novel contains three species, one of which is a sort of not super- or subspecies but a kind of "side" species of humans, created by genetic manipulation of the human genome. Another is a subspecies of humans that are kind of kept as slaves or playthings on an alien world. The third is of course, humans.
In the novel the subspecies (who had of all things the pecul
Re:QR sploits (Score:2)
More directly, this could be the precursor to Snow Crash.