Life Imitates P.K. Dick, Part N+1

This story on Boing Boing on a new malware that kills other, "competing" malware with its own anti-virus program reminded me of the end of Dick's story Second Variety. I won't ruin it by telling you why but you can read this spoiler filled Wikipedia article if you want to.


M E-L posted this on October 26, 2006
It is filed under Computers & Internet

It is also indexed with the following tags: Malware | Philip K. Dick | Life Imitates Art |

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