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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Viral infection via Serial Cable



On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:06:43 PDT, Harlan Carvey said:
>  
> > > You're right, but what does that have to do with
> > an
> > > RS-232 serial cable?
> > 
> > What did you hook your modem to the computer with? 
> 
> Phone cord with an RJ-ll connector.  Even back when I
> did own a 300baud modem, installed in an Epson QX-10,
> it was phone cable...not RS-232.

Newbie. :)

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Outreach/vr/computer_museum/acousticcoupler1.html

And yes, you ran an RS232 between it and your DTE/DCE (as appropriate):

http://williambader.com/museum/modem300/modem300.html

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