EFF/Bernstein Press Release

Scott Binkley SBinkley at atitech.ca
Thu Apr 18 15:24:47 PDT 1996


>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.

Does this mean that an OS is legally considered an entity???

/sb






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