Re:Sarah Gordon is plain wrong... (Score 1)

Hi, I think you're confused. The editorial didn't say a word about virus source code, but rather expressed views people have on public virus distribution. If you'd read the article a bit more carefully, you'd see that I stated clearly laws don't seem to be an effective deterrent. Gee, as we seem to agree, I wonder why you're so hostile? In the (many) viruses I've analysed, and those analysed by other scientists as well, we've rarely seen anything that was close to rocket science. In the few innovative viruses we have seen, the innovation was not in the self-replication (which is trivial!) but in some other aspect of the code which didn't need to be viral to be cool. Finally, it's already illegal in some countries to write and/or publish viruses. WHile I don't imagine it will become illegal to write a virus in the U.S., (what you do in your own home is your own business), one could be extradited to a country with reciprocal laws. Sarah