[saagarjha]

The difference being that with iMessage people can trigger the bug remotely and there's little you can do about it except turn it off completely (as someone I know did end up doing). Hey, I didn't say that what they were doing was a good idea :)

[sambe]

Internet Explorer bugs could not be triggered remotely?

[noisem4ker]

You can't send messages to Internet Explorer. You can just hope the user will fall into your trap website.

[tialaramex]

Right. For example, no huge global companies run services where you pay them money and they paste your arbitrary content into other web sites...

No wait, I was describing a sane world, but this is a world where we decided to fund everything with advertising ("This drug rehabilitation clinic sponsored by OxyContin") and so actually you can do exactly that.

[rasz]

Sure you could, guess what Outlook 2000-2003 used for email internally.