{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-11T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/07\/11\/epidemic-part-3\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T12:14:06","slug":"epidemic-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/07\/11\/epidemic-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemic! part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The term &#8220;portals of entry&#8221; refers to the means in which a microbe enters the body. [p. 79] Malware researchers tend to use the term &#8220;vulnerability.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A big difference between epidemiology and malware research is that in epidemiology, a pathogen is defined as something harmful to the host. In contrast, malware may be harmful to the host PC, to the PC&#8217;s user, and\/or to remote PC or network systems. And, for that matter, it&#8217;s not clear that something like a spam bot would even be considered &#8220;harmful,&#8221; at least not in the form of creating symptoms or damage.<\/li>\n<li><title><\/title>Some viruses attack specific target cells, much as malware attacks specific software [p. 85]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This entry is part of a series. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/maxim\/2008\/06\/20\/the-public-health-of-the-internet\/\">introduction<\/a> for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;portals of entry&#8221; refers to the means in which a microbe enters the body. [p. 79] Malware researchers tend to use the term &#8220;vulnerability.&#8221; A big difference between epidemiology and malware research is that in epidemiology, a pathogen is defined as something harmful to the host. In contrast, malware may be harmful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/maxim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}