from slashdot.org...
"A test carried out by Pegasus Lab on account for Swedish magazine PC För alla showed that a normal PC keyboard was infected by more bacteria than a normal toilet seat. More specific it contained 33000 bacteria per square centimeter, compared to 130 on a ordinary toilet seat. The tests also showed occurrence of up to 3100 fungi per square centimeter. Also note that unless you read Swedish, you still have plausible deniability when asked to windex yours."
as someone who works in the IT field, and often hacks on multiple keyboards a day, of various levels of cleanliness, this does not fill me with happy thoughts. i wonder how many common colds are spread around by contaminated keyboards? guess we'll never know. maybe i need to get some rubber gloves and walk around with a bottle of disinfectant?
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