[Air-l] An astonishing development ...

[jeremy hunsinger]

Actually, this is similar in function to the linux worm that went around 
fixing the lion backdoor, which while still more technically than socially 
oriented certainly helped a few lost computers get back in the control of 
the owners.
At 12:12 PM 06/11/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Truth is stranger the science fiction.
>
>This story covers a new kind of virus
>that seems to perform functions that
>no virus has ever before performed.
>
>Aside from the technical ingenuity it
>requires and the unresolved legal
>issues that it creates, it demonstrates
>a rare conceptual ingenuity for the
>potential social dimensions of IT.
>
>Ken Friedman

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