DC>> As per my reply to Rick, there's people out there
 DC>> distributing VIRUS Source code...  Very illigal, not to
 DC>> mention immoral as far as a computer junkie is concerned...
 >         It is *NOT* illegal to distribute virus source code. It
 > is illegal in
 > several states to distribute virus EXECUTABLES, however, but
 > source code is *NOT* illegal, just like the Bomb Plans I
 > explained earlier.
I don't think you'd better test that little hypothesis in any recent courts.
If the magazines with virus source are illegal ...
 >         Virus source code is nothing but text, and can't harm
 > anything other
 > than a reader's patience. It does nothing. It has to be
 > compiled and executed to be harmful.
That's the same logic that says the person distributing virus source is 
totally innocent, is doing no harm whatsoever; that it's the person who 
infects systems or distributes infected programs with the compiled virus 
who's to blame.
Bull shit.  ANYONE forming ANY link in the chain between conception ("Gee, I 
could write something that could REALLY screw up someone's system!") and 
execution (infected file upload to a local BBS, for instance) is guilty.
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