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- From: jbcondat@attmail.com
- Subject: Please rush you opinion...
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:19:10 GMT
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- Dear Sir:
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- Could you please help me and give me your opinion related to the following
- article that you can find in reprint form?
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- I offer a free copy of _C'est decide! J'ecris mon virus_ for all the 20 first
- opnions send to my e-mail address: jbcondat@attmail.com (don't forget to
- give you *physical addresse*).
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- Regards,
- jbc
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- Jean-Bernard CONDAT (General Secretary)------Chaos Computer Club France [CCCF]
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- From "Intelligence Newsletter", No. 202 (Oct. 8, 1992), Page 5, by O. Schimdt
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- MAKING THE NEWS AND BOOKSTANDS
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- The computer virus "threat" is back in the news with a new study by IBM
- specialist Jeffrey O. Kephart and on the bookstands with a French do-it-
- yourself build-your-own manual on viruses. According to Kephart of IBM's
- High Integrity Computing Laboratory, most previous theories on the "social
- structure of computer use and networks were faulty": not every machine
- could make contact with every other machine in one, two or three "steps".
- Most individual computers are not connected to others systems but only
- to their nearest neighbors. Therefore, most infections take place not through
- networks, but through the physical exchange of disks. Moreover, many of the
- 1,500 known viruses are not good replicators and many are not destructive.
- Even the remaining good replicators are "almost all defeated by normal
- anti-virus programs." To advance knowledge such as this concerning viruses,
- *Chaos Computer Club France* (CCCF) has decided to publish the French trans-
- lation of "The Black Book of Computer Virus" by Mark Ludwig "which was
- censored in the U.S." (French title, "C'est decide! J'ecris mon virus,"
- Editions Eyrolles). [...] The book contains "computer codes for writing your
- own virus," but according to CCCF any such virus can be defeated by normal
- anti-virus programs. Moreover, there is no French law forbidding the publi-
- cation of virus computer codes. The book is intended for "responsible adults"
- and bears the warning "Forbidden for readers not 18 years old".
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