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Plug-'n'-Play USB Virus Makes MacBooks Fall to Pieces (video) - [briefly]
07:26 PM EST - Mar,05 2008 - post a comment

Back in 2005, Troika, the British-based art collective that was behind the Heathrow Terminal 5 sculpture that some of you recently described as a "disco turd," created a virus for Macs, called Newton. It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent Apple and Pac Man and was aimed at, well, people like you or I, who spend far too much time fiddling around on their computers. The video, made this year, is part of the Design and the Elastic Mind show currently running at MoMA in NY.

FYI, MacBook Pro's have an accelerometer to detect when the laptop has dropped so it will park the hard drive head to prevent drive damage.


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