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Re: Slightly OT: Worms: Exploit Plug-ins and Benevolent Worms



On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> > Writing such a worm may be an intersting experience. It could be a good
> > idea for a Haifux' project assuming it is indeed perfectly legal to do it.
>
> It is probably not. I am not a lawyer, but I'd think that to prove a crime
> you need to demonstrate intent and illegal action. In this case you have both:
> you *intend* for the worm to "escape" out to the wild (this list's archives
> shows that), and if the worm does escape and do damage, you also have the
> illegal action.
>

FOA, I don't think those archives indicate my intent to do so. I just said
that such a worm could be a nice thing to have around the net in the long
run. But I was just speculating. I didn't said I was going to do so.

Secondly, if I write such a worm and distribute it on the Net (and not
making it escape into the wild myself), it's still not illegal, at least
not according to what Alon said. If I intend it to be used by Net Admins,
in their private Intranets, and somebody releases it, then only he can be
blamed.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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