Trojan Phones: The New New Virus Vehicle
Imagine buying a new SD card for your digital camera. You go into the store, find a nice 32GB Class 6 SD card at the right price and take it home. It’s sealed in one of those plastic display cards that takes remarkably sharp objects to open them. It’s new, and perfect.
You are very happy because for just a small premium, the card came pre-formatted for your brand of digital camera. There’s nothing to do but insert the card, and take pictures to your hearts content.
After a wonderful night of celebration with thirty pictures of you and your friends in compromising, but Facebook appropriate poses, you decide to download the pictures to your computer, crop them and upload them to Facebook. It’s a behavior you have perfected, a perfunctory skill that requires almost no thought and no time. As you slide the SD card into your card-reader, there’s no way for you to know that along with your digital pictures, you are also downloading a highly virulent Trojan horse that is about to make your entire hard drive available to a ring of foreign hackers.
