full-disclosure - Benign Worms

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Date: Fri May 13 18:03:12 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Benign Worms

> 1. Do people do that?  Or at least, have you considered it?
Well, obviously it's been done. You mentioned two examples. Both of them 
caused significant network disruption in and of themselves.

> 2. If yes, under what conditions would you do that?
None. Not even on my own network and not even if I'd coded it to stay 
within our /16. Too many things could go wrong.

> 3. If not, what prevents you from doing that?
Any worm/virus, regardless of intent, is still illegal -- and I don't 
think I can get a DSL line in jail.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
Cleveland State University