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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Old run-down actor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Virus 101: Chapter 3
Message-ID: <8090013@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 89 01:07:59 GMT
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osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP writes:

>Your articles remind me of a Reader's Digest article I saw some time back
>on "How to Protect Your House From Burglars." It was the best article on
>"How to burglarize a house" I'd ever seen.

    Maybe we should have him killed like Salman Rushdie, eh?

    C'mon, people.  It's silly to crucify a guy for posting information
like this.  It's a free country, speech is still free (thank God).  If
they don't find out from him, they'll find out from someone else.

    As to the Reader's Digest article, I read it too.  Come on.  Would
you rather be informed or uninformed?   The burglars already know how
to burglarize. 

    To show you what nonsense you are preaching, let me give an example
from the article you quoted.   The burglars are looking for the easiest
home to enter.  They will pass by a home with a double deadlock, or 
with a sticker that shows the house is protected by an alarm.  

    Now, knowing this "new" information, how does it help me as a 
burglar?   Should I now go and break into every house that has an alarm
sticker or a double deadlock?

    OF COURSE not.  The burglar is till going to bypass my house for
one that has NO deadlock or alarm sticker.  

    I would rather know about what makes up a virus, so I have at least
SOME chance of protecting against it.