France passes a law to ban phone calls at cinemas and concert theatres. Also the Samy Xss Worm becomes the fastest spreading worm in history. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
2004 – France bans phones at the Cinema
The French government passes a law to allow cinemas, concert halls, and theatres to block all incoming calls to mobile phones and all outgoing calls except to emergency services. Israel and Japan already have such laws.
2005 – Samy XSS Worm spreads
The Samy XSS worm becomes the fastest spreading virus in history. The virus was spread through MySpace where the worm would display the string “but most of all, samy is my hero” on a person’s MySpace page. When a user visited that page, the worm payload would be planted on their own page. Within 20 hours of its release, one million users had run the payload. The author of the worm, Samy Kamkar was arressted by the United States Secret Service in 2006. after entering a plea agreement on his charges, he was sentenced to three years probation without computer use, 90 days community service, and an undisclosed amount of restitution.
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