Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!wybbs!meyers
From: meyers@wybbs.UUCP (John Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors
Summary: Terrorism is OK, as long as they don't hurt people.
Message-ID: <274@wybbs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 20:09:05 GMT
References: <8802072054.AA03747@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison, MI
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In article <8802072054.AA03747@jade.berkeley.edu>, FATQW@USU.BITNET writes:
> I don't think we should discourage people from writing viruses, as long as they
> are harmless.  You have to make the distinction between a practical joke and
> vandallism (sp?).  I think probably SCA was meant as a practical joke, except
> the authors didn't take precautions to keep it that way (i.e. it unexpectedly
> turned out that it WILL destroy things).  As for the new killer virus, I think
BOTH viruses were written to bring notoriety to the two groups who introduced
them, and so far, it has. You might have found it funny to INSTALL 100+
disks, but I sure didn't. I don't find it wise to encourage ANY viruses,
even if you are asking for "harmless" (used loosely in my context) ones.
(Isn't that an oxymoron? Harmless virus)?

>                                 Bryan

                                                 John Meyers



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