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This attitude really annoys me. Instead of laying
the blame for broken software at the door of the
criminally negligent idiots who made it, we
instead blame the user of the software. What kind
of reasoning, if any, is in use here?

I can just see myself explaining this to an elderly relative:

Me: People can attach files to emails and send
them to you. You click on the attachment to open
it.

Elderly relative: Oh, thats easy.

Me: Oh, by the way, some attachments, which
look just like every other attachment, contain
viruses and/or worms, and if you open one of
those, you will be infected. Everyone will
then call you an idiot.

Elderly relative: Oh dear! How do I know which
attachment is ok?

Me: Well, you can't really.

Eldery relative: Um, maybe I'll stick with writing
letters.

The moral: There is no reason for email viruses
to exist. They only exist because of the
idiocy of Microsoft. They should not even be
called "email viruses", they should be called
"Outlook viruses."

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