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- From: fnord@chthulu.org (Dice)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,alt.2600
- Subject: Re: Need info on virus source code
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 06:09:24 GMT
- Organization: AltNet - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net
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- On 6 Feb 1996 15:15:06 GMT rikko@nioz.nl (Rikko Verrijzer) spewed
- such:
-
- >As a Student Informatica (Polytechnic School) I am intrested in both, the way
- >Virus are working and how they are build. But since I am no American and you
- >didn't put any adress off the CERT team I have no idea how to contact them.
- >Further, do I need premision from a teacher of mine or will they believe my
- >baby-face that I mean no harm with the code??
-
- >> Keep in mind that having posted this request to the net, it is now public
- >> knowledge that you have asked for such information...
-
- >It is public knowledge but how do you prove it that someone who asks for code
- >is the virus-programmer???
-
- None of the issues raised here are valid. Examine :
-
- a) There are several web pages with indexed listings of virus source
- code...free for the download.
- b) There is nothing illegal in writing virii, owning virii,
- de-assembling virii.
- c) A virus only becomes illegal when it is transferred with
- malicious(sp) intent.
-
- So who cares??? Let's stop this trivial discussion...go get some
- source code and stop wasting bandwidth with this yakking.
-
- Have a Day
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