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From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Virus in the future?
Keywords: viruses of the past
Message-ID: <889@umbio.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 88 14:36:21 GMT
References: <74@dsoft.UUCP>
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Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
Organization: University of Miami Hertz Lab, Coral Gables, FL
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In <74@dsoft.UUCP>, <root@dsoft.UUCP> wrote:
>The point here, is that now we've got a virus on the nets.  It's made 
>big news in the process.  People are going to see this and some brilliant
>idiot is going to think "Wow, what an easy way to get public recognition!"
>No matter that he's going to screw someone over royally and take down systems
>all over the world. He wants the prestige, he wants the audience, he wants
>to be able to say he pulled something over on the bigshots.

That's a good argument for why the perpetuator should get far more than a
slap on the wrist and a cushy job.


aem
a.e.mossberg    -    aem@mthvax.miami.edu    -    aem@mthvax.span (3.91)
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts; While bullets rape the 
night of the merciful; I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky; And
the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill; We run like a river to the sea,