The language of the cyberspace Gothic is well established by now. Listen the constellation of discourses in the BBC's account of hacked jpgs, or "Poison porn pics":
Microsoft played down the threat from the images. In a statement it said few people were likely to fall victim because of the series of steps they had to go through to get infected.
Illness, victimization, danger, and a faint whiff of iconoclasm!
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