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Now e-cigarettes can give you malware Nov 21st 2014, 16:37, by Alex Hern Better for your lungs, worse for your hard drives, e-cigarettes can potentially infect a computer if plugged in to charge E-cigarettes may be better for your health than normal ones, but spare a thought for your poor computer – electronic cigarettes have become the latest vector for malicious software, according to online reports. Many e-cigarettes can be charged over USB, either with a special cable, or by plugging the cigarette itself directly into a USB port. That might be a USB port plugged into a wall socket or the port on a computer – but, if so, that means that a cheap e-cigarette from an untrustworthy supplier gains physical access to a device. Continue reading...

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