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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
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Date: 14 Nov 88 04:37:09 GMT
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In article <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>Perhaps no charges will even be brought against RTM, on the grounds
>that NSA and others are more worried about the worm program becoming
>public knowledge.  Which no doubt could follow from introducing the
>very program as the main evidence against RTM.

Easily remedied.  There are lots of reverse-engineered versions of
the code out there, and new versions could be put together with
a modicum of effort.  All we need to do is post one such version.
There is no law against that....In fact, that would make an interesting
tech report, no?
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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