Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:23:16 PDT, Blue Boar said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > Remember - it's the *exact* same thing, morally, as if you had been keeping
> > a virus sample that somebody else wrote, and you whoopsed and let it loose.
>
> I disagree that accidentally releasing an instance of a known virus 
> sample is as bad as releasing an instance of an unknown virus sample 
> that you crafted.

I very carefully didn't say if it was a known virus or not.

I'm sure that half the people on this list have, at one time or another,
been working with an as-yet-unknown virus.

Which is worse - accidentally releasing an unknown virus sample you crafted,
or one that somebody else crafted and you're working with?

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