Diary of an up and coming sociopath

As I was doing the Matrix quix, I couldn’t help but notice this popup. It is, for anyone not willing to click on it, a highly unconvincing console window.

Clearly it echoes the spirit of those highly unconvincing dialog boxes which actually seem to fool a depressingly large amount of people (”Your computer is currently broadcasting an internet IP address!”) Presumably, the belief is that the average computer user will become numb with fear at the sight of a DOS box and become compelled to read it as they wonder what the hell’s going on. Even I double-taked wondering where the hell it had come from.

Of course, it makes a number of fatal flaws. As Paul noted, the command prompt wouldn’t actually include the trailing slash, and, oh yes, IT HAS A DIRTY GREAT “OK” BUTTON PASTED HAPHAZARDLY ONTO IT! Jesus christ. I’m almost of the mind that anyone fooled by that deserves their fate.