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echo: virus_info
to: PAUL WALKER
from: GORDON FREY
date: 1997-04-15 09:44:00
subject: Naughty Robots

On (12 Apr 97) Paul Walker wrote to Gordon Frey...
 PW> Hi Gordon,
 PW> Gordon Frey to Paul Walker, 09 Apr 97 08:57.
 GF> The laws change form country to country.... But where was Chris
 GF> charged?
 PW> Um - here, seeing as that's where he lives. :)
 GF> it is a crime two make a bomb, it is a crime to knownly infect
 GF> anothers computer with a virus.  I guess in most other countries
 PW> I'm not sure of the exact wording, but it was reported as "incitement
 PW> to write viruses" after distributing his SMEG engine, and the `how-to'
 PW> guide.
 PW> (Makes interesting reading, that.)
Now I KNOW who, what, and where.  And he did actively encourge the 
distribution and supplied the infectors with account names and 
pass words....  I've only found one or two things that have been 
claimed to be the SMEG engine and were not.
Gordon
... Ignorance of history makes current events surprising.
--- PPoint 2.00
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