Jim Gillogly writes:
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.
I stand corrected; However, my point (overstated as it was) is that this is insignificant to the total number of programs distributed: the whole mass of ftp.uu.net, wuarchive.wustl.edu,...
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.
Oh, I certainly agree. I just don't believe that Betsi does anything constructive towards this -- doing this through reputations of known agents is a much better method, IMO -- and not one that requires an agent <-> human mapping. -- L. Todd Masco | "Which part of 'shall not be infringed' didn't cactus@bb.com | you understand?"