-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, InfoSec News wrote: > Not everyone's buying this excuse. > > "If a thief leaves a note saying he's sorry, do we feel better? No," > said Jason Catlett, the president of an anti-spam group called > Junkbusters, who has testified before Congress on Internet privacy > issues. "Doing things that are socially undesirable in the name of art > does not redeem the act." I think Mr. Catlett sorely missed the point here. While I'm not sure that what the group is doing is "art," it's pretty apparent that their method of virus dissemination isn't imminently destructive. Indeed, their virus dissemination isn't significantly different than what I've done via my web page of trojans, viruses and worms that I've collected over time. (Of course, they probably do the distro with a little more finesse than I.) Bottom line: if you make it clear what the user is downloading from the git-go (unlike the Anna Kournikova virus author), then the only element of destruction in the equation is User Stupidity. - -Jay ( ( _______ )) )) .-"There's always time for a good cup of coffee."-. >====<--. C|~~|C|~~| (>------ Jay D. Dyson - jdysonat_private ------<) | = |-' `--' `--' `--- Every day's a Friday when you have a gun. ---' `------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: See http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ for current keys. iQCVAwUBOzs4utCClfiU/BIVAQG/qAP9HdM9tK44KNO1+MrE7RdqizJIN6+o/cQb v6mvNMnxfBZ/qfLN7wNqYoit7hzmlp/zJ/Drc7V/7LIlt/5wjBLuWO/wYluOF5KN BrjZsyqQnbmY8B5PbwW97zrfaB94uwKCzYuBuEKYo1grqNx3IfrwG2X+3xdAtBWP GE5yRm7IFp8= =FBug -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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