Re: Sale of Viri

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1 total messages Started by Fridrik Skulason Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:16

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Author: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:16

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alby@access.digex.com (Albatross) writes:

>      Is there any law in the USA the prohibits the Sale of Virus
>software to the Public? Or any type of distrubution of such software
>with the sole intent to create business revenew?

I'm no lawyer...just a techie :-)...but my answer would be
"Unfortunately no".  In fact, this has been done, well sort-of...just
consider the "little black book".

Maybe some day some enterprising soul will gather all the viruses
available on the various Vx BBSes - put them on a CD-ROM and offer
them for sale.

As things are now, I don't see any way to stop that - It is difficult
to write a law that would prohibit writing/selling viruses...and any
such law might be challenged as violating the first amendment (isn't
that the "free speech" thing ?)...It is much easier to make laws
prohibiting introducing viruses into somebody's comeputer system...but
still...

As I have said before - the lack of any action against virus writers
is the primary reason why viruses are a problem today.

- -frisk

Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801

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