full-disclosure - Viral infection via Serial Cable

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From: yehudi at tehila.gov.il (yaakov yehudi)
Subject: Viral infection via Serial Cable 

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