full-disclosure - Benign Worms

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Message-ID: <BAY1-F15F4C32CC99E8151AE4988E120@phx.gbl>
Date: Fri May 13 17:13:11 2005
From: k872sd at hotmail.com (k k)
Subject: Benign Worms

Hi,

I am an academic researcher.  I benefited a lot during my previous 
interaction at the full disclosure list on a different topic and now, I am 
here to get some input on benign worms.

There is debate surrounding whether releasing benign worms such as Nachi or 
Welcha, in general is ethical or not.  But network administrators can still 
create benign worms for their need (not necessarily Nachi or Welcha) and 
release them in their domain to patch systems.

1. Do people do that?  Or at least, have you considered it?

2. If yes, under what conditions would you do that?

3. If not, what prevents you from doing that?

Best
Karthik

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