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btashton
on May 13, 2017
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Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm
.txt is in that list you quoted... Edit: the dyslexia kicked in txt!= tex I'm the fool.
ohwaitnvm
on May 13, 2017
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!= .tex, which is for LaTeX or similar, and isn't just a plaintext .txt file.
askvictor
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Except that it is just plaintext...
wungsten
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any file can be plain text if you want it to be ;)
djsumdog
on May 13, 2017
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and you can make plain text files that are executable in x86 land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
obituary_latte
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That was AWESOME. Thanks for sharing.
dom0
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A PDF file is also mostly plaintext. At times.
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