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echo: virus_info
to: DARIN CROSSLAND
from: PAUL WALKER
date: 1997-03-26 16:16:00
subject: Naughty Robots

Hi Darin,
Darin Crossland to Paul Walker, 08 Mar 97 21:10.
 DC> talking about big sting operations. Just some sort of moderation to
 DC> the pages and items being put up. If is illegal, you don't even have
No, I don't think there should. Once you start moderating something like 
hat,
you're in real trouble.
 DC>   As per my reply to Rick, there's people out there distributing
 DC> VIRUS Source code...  Very illigal, not to mention immoral as far as
So, fine - tell their ISP, tell the police in their country, whatever, but
don't expect someone to do it for you.
 DC>   Sure...  Many people go, "Hey! I'd like to see that source code..."
 DC> but not many of them think of that when they are hit hard by a virus
At the risk of sounding arrogant, people who know enough to assemble a virus
but not how to contain it deserve to have their data killed anyway. People 
ho
don't know how to assemble it aren't a danger; people who know how to contain 
it
generally wouldn't spread it anyway.
 DC>  Children shouldn't play with dead things...
Wuh? Must be a US thing, I think.
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