Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!lakesys!jason
From: jason@lakesys.UUCP (Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Repost from BITNET -- the SCA Virus
Summary: I spose... (Re: Hindsight)
Message-ID: <711@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 88 06:01:35 GMT
References: <8805271638.AA14839@jade.berkeley.edu> <707@lakesys.UUCP> <6018@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee Wisconsin
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In article <6018@cup.portal.com>, DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes:
> In message <707@lakesys.UUCP>, jason@lakesys.UUCP writes:
> > [Some stuff that I wrote regarding starting a virus]
> >
> Hindsight's great isn't it!  I'm not condoning what the SCA virus did, but
> making the assertion that someone should have thought about this when it was
> just meant as a ONE PERSON joke is a bit much -- don't you think??
> 
> David Masterson
> DMasterson@cup.portal.com

	I suppose that it all has to do with how aware one is of the possible
consequences. I guess it wouldn't seem that bad (as a one person joke), but
it strains my imagination as to how someone could write a destructive virus
without having any clue as to the possibilities... Generally, anyone who knows
enough about any particular system to write a virus has been using/programming
computers long enough to be aware of what a potentially dangerous thing they
are. Didn't it cross his mind that somehow it might get out?

	Btw, no, I don't think :)

	Jason
"Not your average iconoclast"