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bucolic_frolic

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4. I recall reading a good 15 years ago

Reply to blondebanshee (Original post)

Wed May 23, 2018, 08:26 PM

May 2018

that all this spam that tried to get you to open and read and click was capable of implanting bits of code on your computer that could later be drawn together for unclear purposes. So someone' known about this for quite a while.

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