I have little or no sympathy for people who illegally copy a program and then find one day that it's trashed their data. Serves 'em right. Sure there would be chaos, but who knows what could arise from the rubble. Peter, Risks is supposed to be a digest. The huge article that just ate up my time like worm could have been digested and the summary put in a few lines.
Worms have their place.
Eating up stories like that one is one of their good uses. Worms digest waste. I was listening to a radio station the other day whose studio is on the San Francisco Bay. In the early afternoon, the station started getting a re-occuring noise over the air that sounded vaguely like a burp, which distracted the DJ no end. It turned out after investigation by their engineers that it was being caused by a Navy Aircraft Carrier that had just entered the bay on the way to Alameda.