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i hate it when people exaggerate - a virus? really? i think people are influenced by government exaggeration. maybe next time someone will classify this as "ter
by propercoil 14y ago
i hate it when people exaggerate - a virus? really? i think people are influenced by government exaggeration. maybe next time someone will classify this as "terrorism".
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- rwallace 14y agoA virus is a piece of information that exploits a security vulnerability in an existing complex system, tricking the system into propagating the virus to its own detriment. Remember the word originally only applied where the target was a living cell. The usage where the target is a digital computer might have been considered a metaphor, but the deep structural similarity outweighs the difference in substrate, sufficiently to merit considering the new usage a valid extension. Zynga 'games' are viruses that exploit security vulnerabilities in the human mind. The extension of usage is just as defensible as the original extension to digital computers.
- propercoil 14y agoterrorism is a "systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal" (dictionary.com). Zynga 'games' are acts of terrorism that attack the human mind to achieve their goals. What a bunch of fluff