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Date: Fri May 13 22:38:25 2005 From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter) Subject: Benign Worms On Fri, May 13, 2005 9:59 am, Michael Holstein said: >> 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. Not true. Intent is *everything* as far a criminal activity is concerned. Intent aside, if you restrict the worm to your subnet that you own and are authorized to alter the systems on, then even releasing a malicious worm would be legal. Maybe not very smart, but legal. It's only illegal if you affect systems you're not authorized to affect. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and dns services http://www.arcticbears.com
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