Stardate 20011016.2235 (On Screen): There's a different kind of "social engineering" than the one which will be needed for a habitat in space. That's the kind used by worm writers to entice people to run attached programs so as to infect their machines. You'd think that at this point, what with such high profile examples as the Kournikova worm (no, there really weren't any topless pictures of her) that at this point people would learn:
never execute a program that "a friend" mails you. But the "social engineers" working on the worms have no shame at all. In the wake of the WTC bombing, a worm went around masquerading as a program to let you vote on whether the US should go to war. Now there's one going around which pretends to offer you information about anthrax, and it's spreading fast. If every computer user had common sense, none of these worms would ever spread at all -- which is why we're going to be stuck with them forever.
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