“The whole idea that one organism would voluntarily ingest and be regulated by the fecal by-products of another,” she says, “makes us wonder what is going on.”
You and me both.
Past the squick factor though, it really is an amazing example of how many forms life can take.
Of course not many people out of the general population know how to make a (primarily) windows VM, but I'm surprised that others aren't mentioning it in this thread.
I worked at a school helpdesk for a while, and I saw that whenever school email accounts were hacked, the attackers would set up forwarding to some other account.
People wouldn't notice the forwarding for weeks or longer, and would only come in to us by chance. In the meantime, a lot of information could be siphoned off.
There could be some legitimate security concerns there, especially since most yahoo accounts don't have a convenient and free help desk to stop by, right?
(Disclaimer: I am only a novice when it comes to security, I could be totally off base)
You and me both.
Past the squick factor though, it really is an amazing example of how many forms life can take.