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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Viral infection via Serial Cable
- To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx>, "Harlan Carvey" <keydet89@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Viral infection via Serial Cable
- From: "yaakov yehudi" <yehudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:29:22 +0200
I remember having one modem that didn't use a cable to connect to the
computer, but that was only because it attached directly to the RS232
port. Certainly RS232 was the usual mode of connection!
YY
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 22:33
To: Harlan Carvey
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Subject: 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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