I just remembered what this trifecta reminds me of...
...I had an engineering ethics text years ago that had a comic poking fun at some issues we had in the 1970's:
...A DC-10 airliner full of Firestone 500 tires loses an engine and crashes into the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The resulting fire is put out using asbestos blankets...
ActiveX + Flash + MS Office ... same damned thing.