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Article #36788Re: Right of reply, virus- public, private- a thin line
From: Bob_BobR_Retelle
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 05:29
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 05:29
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Lawrence Y. Chiu writes: >What's the big deal about distributing the source code for vires? Compute! >publishes an entire book on the subject, with examples. Furthermore anyone >with a disassembler can disassemble a virus. I'm sure you know by now just how responsible I think Compute! was in publishing virus source code... The thing about disassembling a virus is that first you need to HAVE an example to disassemble... if the (stereotyped:nasty teenaged hacker with nothing better to do) can't get hold of one to study, maybe he'll go make explosives in his garage with the instructions he downloaded from the local BBS instead... Publishing source code for a computer virus is like handing out plans for zipguns at a racially tense high school... maybe 99% will just look at them and throw them away... then again, maybe they won't... BobR
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