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

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:52:30 EDT, Blanchard_Michael () emc com said:
> What about writing a virus, but never intending for it to get out, but it gets out? 

I covered that already:

> > 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.

Letting your creation escape is the badness.

Remember - it's the *exact* same thing, morally, as if you had been keeping
a virus sample that somebody else wrote, and you whoopsed and let it loose.

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