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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Beneficial Virus?
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.93Jan3212900@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 02:29:00 GMT
- References: <BETSYS.92Dec31161124@ra.cs.umb.edu> <30JRwB4w165w@ruth.UUCP>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: rat@ruth.UUCP's message of 2 Jan 93 19: 06:49 GMT
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- Well, if the virus only infected systems which carried a marker, that
- is another story. I would have no problem with a program which spread
- from machine to machine at the consent of the owners, *AS LONG AS*
- that program did not forcibly enter my machine. If the virus requires
- a specific door to be open, and a sysadm opens the door, that's fine.
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