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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by ohwaitnvm on Friday May 12, 2017 @10:39PM (#14329306)
!= .tex, which is for LaTeX or similar, and isn't just a plaintext .txt file.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by askvictor on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:08AM (#14329492)
Except that it is just plaintext...
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by wungsten on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:19AM (#14329638)
any file can be plain text if you want it to be ;)
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by djsumdog on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:01AM (#14329844)
and you can make plain text files that are executable in x86 land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA

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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by obituary_latte on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:55AM (#14330496)
That was AWESOME. Thanks for sharing.
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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by dom0 on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:34AM (#14330874)
A PDF file is also mostly plaintext. At times.
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