17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"L. Todd Masco" <cactus@bibliob.slip.netcom.com> writes: Certainly not enough to justify the rest: Can you name one example of an author of a package including some virus? Not someone putting one
Yes.
post-production (individual signing will prevent that), but the original author?
Mark Ludwig wrote KOH, an on-the-fly disk encryption program that is also a virus. It was posted recently to alt.security.pgp. Ludwig is the author of a number of other viruses that don't claim to be useful.
It's a straw man.
OK. For the record, I think it's a Good Thing to have as much confidence in lots of different frequent-version programs as I do in (say) PGP with its signed-file protocols. Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 7 Halimath S.R. 1994, 22:32