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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Virus design
- Message-ID: <P7ZFwB2w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 13:19:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.073545.17845@eff.org>
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- mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
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- | In article <ZmLawB1w165w@ruth.UUCP> rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
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- | >Suppose someone wrote a virus that was BENEFICIAL? One that spread just
- | >like others, but had a beneficial effect on the system.
- |
- | Virus researcher Fred Cohen has theorized about such viruses. Some of his
- | work has appeared in the proceedings of the DPMA's annual Virus and
- | Computer Security conferences.
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- DPMA?? Not ACM? Guess those stuffed shirts ARE good for something :-) :-)
- At the college I went to, I could have joined DPMA - but felt no self-
- respecting hacker would join them and joined ACM instead...
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- Are there texts of the conferences with Fred's talk in them?
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