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From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
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Subject: Re: Excerpts from bit.listserv.virus-l
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.035257.3832@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 23 Jan 91 03:52:57 GMT
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From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
In article <1991Jan22.022646.22830@cbnews.att.com> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>	French press and media reported in some details that computer
>	viruses could be planted, either in advance or afterwards, in
>	French  EXOCET rockets  to  influence  their performance.

This is something I was wondering about a few weeks back.  If I were selling
weapons to a country that might turn around and use them against me, I'd
program in an override.  I wouldn't let it be generally known, of course.
Probably a hook somewhere in the ROM that lets you remotely program it, to
maintain generality.
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