Alpha: It's a hole scriptable enough to drive a corporation thru!
Beta: Yeah, think of it -- the telecommunications capacity of one computer being scriptable by another, thru plain text email. Contagious! ExtrA wildfire!
Delta: But starting a chain reaction can't be it -- you can READ the script -- it's obvious that it's there. YOU first noticed because it wrote a file into the startup folder.
Beta: (one-upping delta) Most people cannot, and may assume its just more computer garbage.
Delta: Oh...
Delta: Wait! There is that Kro$oft alert box! Someone's definitely trying to send a message!
Alpha: (with lofty attitude, of course) For What It's Worth, being scriptable, the system could be scripted not to just to propagate a worm, but to do many things...
Silence.
Delta: What an outlook...
Alpha: Yup.
Beta: You two are full of it! Wouldn't the programmers who created the mail client have known about this???!!!
Silence.
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