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From: bishop@skat.usc.edu (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors
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Date: 22 Feb 88 07:04:17 GMT
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In article <339@sas.UUCP> bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
>This is the stupidest damn posting I've ever read in my life.  Maybe I'll
>go buy a MAC if people are going to use the net to solicit viruses for the
>Amiga.

  This was the stupidest posting I have ever read in my life. If the Amiga
conference is going to become a bunch of close-minded people like this, maybe
I'll go buy a Timex-Sinclair. ;-)

  Seriously, though, I think that the original posting had a good point. If
there are any potential virus authors out there (and you *know* there are
some getting this feed somewhere), then it would be good to make them aware
of any method to make their creations less harmful. Pretending they don't exist
won't help, and I just don't buy the argument that suggestions like these
will entice anybody to write a virus who wasn't going to anyway.

brian bishop                            ---> bishop@usc-ecl.ARPA               
(uscvax,sdcvdef,engvax,scgvaxd,smeagol) ---> usc-skat!bishop.UUCP

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic
condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time,
every creature that lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat
of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life.
Everywhere in the universe." 
                             - Wilbur Mercer, founder of Mercerism

have a nice day fnord.