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This Time, Cell Phone Virus Is for Real (Ziff Davis)







This Time, Cell Phone Virus Is for Real
(Ziff Davis)

This Time, Cell Phone Virus Is for Real
(Ziff Davis)
06/18/2004 07:18 PM

Ziff Davis - Opinion: It's heeeere ... an international team of security researchers has created a "proof-of-concept" cell phone virus, and this one is no hoax.




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