It will never change if the world at large continue to be MORONS. This was part of an article at MSNBC covering the FBI probe of the NBC News Twitter account:
Osborn, the NBC News social media director, said he recently received one such suspicious email as Hurricane Irene was approaching New York. The email came from an unknown sender with the subject “Hurricane Alert” and the message: “Ryan, You need to get off TWITTER immediately and protect your family from the hurricane. That is an order.”
Osborn wrote back “I’m sorry. Who is this?” The sender then replied, “I’m the girl next door” with an attachment. Osborn said he mistakenly clicked on the attachment and it contained a Christmas tree.
This is the Social Media Director for NBC. If there’s ANYBODY who should know better, you’d think it’s him. What kind of idiot opens an attachment on a SECOND GO AROUND of a suspicious email. Even after he QUESTIONED the first one’s validity? Seriously – “the girl next door” gave him an “order” that came with an attachment. If this doesn’t qualify as “suspicious email”, what does?
This is the digital equivalent of a terrorist handing somebody an improvised explosive device with a note that says “press this button right here, please”. The next “nine-eleven” is going to be digital. But this time it won’t require a lick of planning. And we’ll even help carry it out, too!
To properly honor to the tenth anniversary, this post was delayed until Monday.
