Never underestimate the appeal of seeing pictures of a naked hottie, especially to a bunch of European diplomats. Today, Orin Kerr of The Volokh Conspiracy summarizes an interesting story from the Australian arm of the London Daily Telegraph:
… dozens of computers of diplomats from countries including the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary and Latvia had their computers infected with a virus designed to extract information when they were at the G20 summit in Paris in February 2011. The virus, believed to originate from China, came as an attachment to an e-mail that had a simple message: click on the attachment to see naked pictures of Carla Bruni. According to a government source who spoke to the reporter,” almost everybody who received the email took the bait.”
The full article is HERE.