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From: jsm@vax1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trojan horses
Message-ID: <338@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 08:57:29 EST
Article-I.D.: vax1.338
Posted: Sun Apr 12 08:57:29 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:36:44 EST
References: <324@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu> <10@mcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsm@vax1.UUCP (Jon Meltzer)
Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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In article <10@mcs.UUCP> beser@mcs.UUCP (Eric Beser USENET) writes:
>In article <324@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>, jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jon Meltzer)
>writes:
>
>> The April issue of 'Computer Language' gives a rave review , by one Tim
>> Parker, of a public-domain program called NOTROJ.COM. The program is
>> alleged to be a protection against trojan horses; Parker says that
>> "this superb little package should be used by anyone working with software
>> for the first time ".
>> 
>> The catch is that NOTROJ is well known in the BBS community as being ITSELF
>> a trojan horse ...
>> 
>Not only is this documented by the BBS community, It was written about
>in ACM's SIGSOFT (Journal of Software Engineering). They weren't sure
>if this software had some legitimate bugs, or was deliberatly destructive.
>
>I'm not a lawyer, but I think that if someone rushes out to obtain this
>delightful ditty on the basis of recomendations from a reputable 
>national magazine, and NOTROJ does its thing, isn't the magazine
>liable for contributory neglegence? It's like the New England
>Journal of Medicine raving about Arsenic as a cure for the cold.
>
If "Computer Language" wants to have any credibility henceforth, it must
fire Parker and print a retraction.