Hacked porn jpegs poisoning cyberspace

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!