Forbidden Knowledge (Banned Research, Part II)

[Declan McCullagh]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:23:02AM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> Not quite yet.  People have gone to prison for *releasing* viruses, 
> not for *writing* them.  Heck, I've written a dozen viruses myself, 
> and not one has ever been run on a machine I didn't reformat within 
> the week.  An amusing pastime - not a crime.

At least not yet. If it's illegal (under Goodlatte's bill) to distribute
spam code, why not arguably more destructive viral code? After all, this
congressional session is still young and there's plenty of time for them
to get inventive.

-Declan