Wei_Dai comments on von Neumann probes and Dyson spheres: what exploratory engineering can tell us about the Fermi paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 15 March 2012 08:18:53AM *  0 points [-]

I don't think PPTs are much more dangerous than PDFs since PowerPoint disables macros by default, and PDFs can contain malware as well (that exploit unpatched holes in Acrobat software). And people who want to spread malware can always upload those files elsewhere and then link to them in the wiki or comments.