[lug] On NPR this morning

[Ian S. Nelson]

All the more reason it is time for an opensource virus detection package.
To my knowledge there aren't any that are to the useful point yet.

Personally, I think this is better than them passing laws restricting
technology so that they can wiretap and do things like that.  I'm not in
favor of big brother but I like my personal chances with a big brother
virus or trojan a lot more than wiretaps and making cryptography illegal.

Ian

"Andrew R. Diederich" wrote:

> Unfortunately, yes.  The US anti-virus folks aren't even going to detect
> those viruses or worms.  This was in the news a week or two ago.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Scott A. Herod wrote:
>
> > Actually, the business report on KUVO.
> >
> > There was a bit this morning about the FBI proposing to
> > write an email trojan horse that would infect computers
> > and send them encryption passwords.  If I saw the story
> > on the web I'd discount it.  Has anyone seen the story
> > crop up somewhere else?  I figured slashdot would have
> > it but saw nothing since Sunday.  Perhaps it is time to
> > finally start signing emails and encrypting stuff.