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Re: ILOVEYOU?????
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.196
Date: Friday, May 5, 2000, at 04:02:28
In Reply To: ILOVEYOU????? posted by Jommeke on Friday, May 5, 2000, at 02:12:12:

> Scary, that's all i can say about the international email-disaster of yesterday.
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> Our company was infected too, the secretary who receives all the external emails opened the virus-file (of course), so everyone on the intranet received it as well (and some of them opened it too ...) and our external contacts ....
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> It proves that today's society is extremely vulnerable! One madman can put the whole world upside-down. Same with other stuff like those school-killings in your country (US). Very scary all.... A fool who has access to the right material can do anything with today's society.
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> Solution? Only one... a complete "big brother"-society, but that's even more scary ....
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> Jom"maybe-i-should-try-to-live-in-a-cave"meke

I got it too, but fortunately it didn't do any damage beyond wasting far too much of my time deleting a bazillion stupid incoming emails. I suppose I should be happy to learn I'm in so many people's address books. ;-)

The *really* scary thing was seeing some random bubblebrained company secretary interviewed on our TV news coverage of the virus. "Oh, I saw we had dozens of these emails coming in, and of course I was suspicious, but I had to open just one of them because, you know, 'ILoveyou' *giggle* I had to just see what it was about, you know?"

I'm not saying people like this are *bad*, I'm just saying it should be illegal to be stupid.

Brunnen-"zero tolerance"G

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