Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!jack
From: jack@cca.CCA.COM (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Safe computing
Message-ID: <22906@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 88 20:47:40 GMT
References: <9659@udenva.cair.du.edu> <7975@g.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: jack@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Jack Orenstein)
Organization: Computer Corp. of America, Cambridge, MA
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In article <7975@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>... Commodore doesn't have
>a responsibility to prosecute the virus criminals any more than Chicago
>Cutlery has a responsibility to prosecute knife murderers.

It may not be their responsibility, but it is certainly in their best
interest to try and protect the machine, by fixing Kickstart, by
providing a software "vaccine", and by prosecuting if possible.  Maybe
the correct analogy is to the manufacturers of Tylenol after someone
laced the product with cyanide - they weren't responsible, but they
tried hard to make tampering more difficult, and they went to a lot of
trouble to communicate their efforts.


Jack Orenstein


This is not a disclaimer.