If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.

Alan Paller

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[Saturday's worm] is the recruitment of soldiers, not telling the soldiers where to aim their guns.

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— Alan Paller