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From: RJOHNSON%BCSC02.BITNET@VMA.CC.CMU.EDU (Ronald Johnson,)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: should we fight fire with fire?
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Date: 22 Sep 89 15:42:25 GMT
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 *** Reply to note of 09/22/89 00:11

 The proposed "solution" is not acceptable.
 1. It would be the beginning of a new "ARMS RACE" with each side trying to
    overpower the other with increasingly sophisticated viruses.
 2. The possibility for abuse is frightening.

 .
 Regards,
 Ronald Johnson, acting Data Security Manager
 Security Services, LDB, Vancouver, 254-5711 ext. 353