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Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:23:46 +1200
Dude VanWinkle wrote:
What if the viruses you create are programmed to only work on a private IP range (10.254.127.0/24), or that expire after a certain date (say 1 week). Does that remove the unwanted moral hangups?
No, because you have released self-replicating code. The latter is the "essential badness". Even if you release a "crippled" version of the code, someone else can take it and usually trivially (relative to the effort of initial authorship) alter it and then there is a new variant that (probably) won't be detected by at least some "antivirus" products, etc, et seq, ad nauseum... So, any form of release of virus-like code is bad, with any form of release of previously unknown virus-like code being even worse. Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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