&gt; Has anybody been personally burned by this?<p>People get burned by this <i>sort</i> of thing all the time, malicious downloads were hip when Clinton was in the White House. Yes, only on Windows, and yes, easy to thwart if you know what to look for, but it&#x27;s disingenuous to say that it&#x27;s never happened. These things are attacks on your ability to recognize and be vigilant, and you can&#x27;t recognize and be vigilant of everything at the same time.<p>Obviously the particular vector of console pastes hasn&#x27;t been exploited yet but that doesn&#x27;t mean it won&#x27;t ever. When it does, we&#x27;ll mourn the passing of our current free-wheeling days the same way we mourn the old Usenet.