Re: Re: Malware sharing? People are full of shit [was: Get your computer viruses here!]

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

> whats stopping the AV companies from beefing up their detection
> algorithms (or creating them to begin with)? 

You're right! Why didn't the AV companies think of that great idea 
themselves! Damn, how could we have been so stupid.

> maybe this will actually
> help the bad AV companies out. Still, I would doubt that these
> processes work on apps like nod32.
>
> Are the proponents of the (hypothetical) discontinuing of this site

I'm not suggesting that the site be discontinued. I'm suggesting that Val 
has the obligation to decide who gets access to it and who doesn't, 
because he's being irresponsible if he doesn't.

> saying that: while skilled "bad guys" wont be helped by this site, the
> average script kiddie will? 

Both groups will be helped, but the poorer malware coders will be helped 
more.

> There is something to be said about
> keeping dangerous information from todays children who havent learned
> restraint or the dangers of punishment, but I am still uneasy about
> trodding down a path that limits free speech in _any_ from.

I'm comfortable with you being uneasy. But I'm uneasy about you being 
comfortable.

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