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From: hwfe@ur-tut (Harlan Feinstein)
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Subject: Re: What to do about binaries
Message-ID: <2224@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 09:48:34 GMT
References: <6010@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Harlan Feinstein)
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In article <6010@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
>In article  <1128@csccat.UUCP> loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes:
>]	SHAREWARE has carried the dreaded disk disease, the virus, into
>]	the world on at least one occasion that is known.
>Any binaries or sources can carry viruses.  If you don't believe that
>a source can carry a virus, maybe I ought to prove it to you...
>]	There is no
>]	positive way to protest against such nasties as trojans and
>]	virii except to ban binary executables.
>Or, we could take the totally unexpected tact of letting users make up
>their own minds what sort of risks they want to take.

Chuck, I'll admit that I'm pretty inexperienced in flaming, but here goes:
The points in your article <1128@csccat.UUCP> are some of the dumbest I've
heard in a long while.  I think that the parts I like best, along with David
Gudeman's reactions to them, are the pearls of your article.  Why don't we
ban computers, since viruses run on computers; I mean, after all, viruses
can't do anything when the computer is off (or can they?).  Why don't you 
not use your computer?  

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