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RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:18:23 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:
Column Plug: Ethics and Virus Testing Opinion: How come discovering vulnerabilities and writing exploits is "research," but viruses for testing is a crime against humanity? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2005814,00.asp
You missed the main argument against what CR did. The results they got will randomly favour whichever products are better that their choice of files. They didn't write viruses from scratch, they modified existing ones, right? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Aug 19)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 20)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 20)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 20)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 20)
- Re: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Aug 20)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Drsolly (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Peter Kosinar (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Aug 21)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses David Harley (Aug 23)
- RE: Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses Larry Seltzer (Aug 23)