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On 10 Apr 2001, at 9:53, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> I think this might have some relevance-
>
> - Wade
>
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>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/100/science/Science_Briefs+.shtml
>
> Computer plagues
>
> Computer viruses are more infectious than human ones. Romualdo
> Pastor-Satorras of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in
> Barcelona, and Alessandro Vespignani of The Abdus Salam International
> Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, studied how computer
> viruses spread and found a key difference between the two types of
> viruses and how they spread. Human viruses are generally passed from
> one person to one other person or very few people. Computer viruses,
> on the other hand, typically spread from one machine to very many
> others directly. A detailed model of the effects of this difference,
> together with the potentially long times that computer viruses can lie
> dormant, produces some disturbing predictions. Among them are that
> there is likely no safe minimum viral load needed to start an
> epidemic, and that old viruses can re-emerge after arbitrarily long
> periods of laying low.
>
Like coughing in a theatre...
>
> ref: Physical Review Letters, April 2.
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