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Friday, February 18, 2005

Phillipine-born mobile phone virus invades USA

"Cabir," the first mobile phone virus documented "in the wild" has now spread from its origin in the Philippines to the United States. It took eight long months to get here, so -- I'm guessing it traveled by way of the same shitty mobile carrier I use.

Cabir was found on Monday in a technology gadgets store in Santa Monica, California, when a passing techie spotted a telltale sign on the screen of a phone in the store.

Link (thanks, uh, "cabir"...)

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