310,000 lives ruined by 53 useless Facebook friends - Hilarious commentary by Cnet

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"An open letter to that useless Facebook friend who shared your data
Commentary: Here's to the 0.017 percent of the population that ruined it for the rest of us. Congratulations. You're Patient Zero.

The Facebook scandal has taught me a valuable lesson this week. When the inevitable zombie-virus apocalypse hits us, the whole world will be infected because a few people didn't wash their hands.

No matter how prepared we are, how many vaccinations we've stockpiled or how many faceless soldiers we have ready to deploy in our futuristic aqua-tanks, the outbreak will come down to Patient Zero -- the idiot who pets the radioactive monkeys at a military-run lab and then doesn't wash their hands before dinner.

Fifty-Three people ruined 310,000 innocent people

In Australia, we have 53 of them. Except these people didn't sneeze radioactive monkey DNA onto fellow citizens on a peak-hour train. They signed up for an app, handed over their friends' personal data and cause a data outbreak that hit 310,000 innocent people across the fine country of Australia. "

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