It can also allow a business professional to arrive for a presentation carrying only a palm-size computer, which will be able to pull the presentation off the Web.
Despite JSTOR declining to pursue the case, and later in 2001 making its public-domain resources freely available, the federal suit continued, with charges of computer fraud and wire fraud carryinga potential sentence of 35 years.
Here's how it works: When a stick carrying the malware is inserted into a USB drive, the malware lodges itself in the computer by riding piggyback on the PC's "autorun" function.