Monday, 16. February 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on February 16, 2004 at 12:21:00 PM CET
The stealth worm era
With the pace of virus development accelerating, experts fear even nastier criminal attacks in future
Many people might wonder why virus writers aren't simply rounded up and arrested for producing their creations. But in most countries, writing viruses is not illegal.
Indeed, in the United States some legal scholars argue that it is protected as free speech. Software is a type of language, and writing a program is akin to writing a recipe for beef stew. It is merely a bunch of instructions for the computer to follow, in the same way that a recipe is a set of instructions for a cook to follow.
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