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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 12:34:18 +1200
"..." to Dude:
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?depends on how much you trust someone will be able to disassemble/modify it and re-deploy it without those restrictions...
And as you cannot know either that or that someone not capabale of doing that might not then hand it to someone else, you should not do it.
but of course guns makers cannot be held responsible for shootings....
Actually, that's just a legal convenience in some countries that allows a powerful commercial lobby to maintain it production of guns. Further, it is essentially irrelevant if intended as some kind of lame analogy, as when a gun manufacturer "releases" a gun, it dooes not then go out and start making multiple addition copies of itself and possibly liberally distributing those through the time-space continuum. As the latter is the essential "evil" of self-replicating code, your ill- conceived thoughts about guns are irrelevant. I think there's a corollary equating the mentioning gun manufacturer liabilities as analogous to virus writing/distribution immoralities to Godwin's Law... If there isn't, there should be. 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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