17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Mark Neely wrote:
Well, that puts legislation making virus authoring a crime into a new (and difficult) position.
On the other hand, a virus is malicious speech, no? Sorta like libel or fraud. You said bad and untrue things to the victim's computer and the dimwitted OS believed it. Also this is impersonation. You spoke words that led the OS to think that you were a legit user and, having its gained trust on false grounds, it lets you do malicious things. So is misrepresentation also constitutional? (Not like I need this answered ;-> )