Ipods ship with virus conveniently pre-installed

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As far as I understand, that large market share declines daily, slowly but surely the world will be all open source.

AT LAST!

just a tid-bit. Did you know window runs its servers on Unix servers 8O

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Yes, last I read they were using FreeBSD. I could be wrong though, my memory sux.
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its so funny.
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The thing is, what happened to the iPod can happen to ANY device that connects through the USB and acts like a mass storage device. A company could release USB drives with a virus or worm on them. Even SD cards. Just image that next USB thumb drive you buy ends up infecting your computer because the manufacturer was using windows for testing purposes.

Heck, even a digital camera that comes with built in memory can have a windows virus tucked into it and you would never really know it.
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