Tom Scott

A Christmas Computer Bug, and the Future of Files

S5 • E68    Dec 21, 2015    8m
In 1987, a German student wrote CHRISTMA EXEC - a virus whose basic mechanisms still work if you port them to today's desktop computers. Why haven't we changed in nearly 30 years? And what could we do instead?

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