Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:13:49 CDT, Gadi Evron said:
> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/77440
>
> Okay, so, who wants to shout writing viruses is bad, first?

Releasing viruses is bad.

Keeping a stockpile of viruses under conditions that they may escape
is bad - and it doesn't matter if you wrote them or collected them.
You may have collected a rare virus that hasn't been seen yet by A/V
signature writers - or you may write viruses that intentionally are
detected by current scanners.  So the moral injunction is to not release
undetectable viruses, no matter what source.

Writing a non-released virus?  That's a black box by definition, and
morally neutral.

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