By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
A customer in Shenzhen, China, took a brand-new laptop out of its box and booted it up for the first time. But as the screen lit up, the computer began taking on a life of its own. The machine, triggered by a virus hidden in its hard drive, began searching across the Internet for another computer.
A customer in Shenzhen, China, took a brand new laptop out of its box and booted it up for the first time. But as the screen lit up, the computer began taking on a life of its own. The machine, triggered by a virus hidden in its hard drive, began searching across the Internet for another computer.
A customer in Shenzhen, China, took a new laptop out of its box and booted it up for the first time. But as the screen lit up, the computer began taking on a life of its own. The machine, triggered by a virus hidden in its hard drive, began searching across the Internet for another computer.
"It's more than simply a traditional intellectual property issue," Boscovich said. "It's now become a security issue."
But more than Microsoft's image is stake when counterfeit products are tainted by malware that spreads so rapidly, Boscovich said.
