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From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: phage
Date: Sat 17:36:46 05/11/1988 EST
Subject: Re: Disassembled virus?
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   Date: Sat, 5 Nov 88 15:33:46 EST
   From: comer@purdue.edu (Douglas Comer)

   The ONLY thing that will discourage copy-cats is severe
   punishment for the author.

There may be the possibility of criminal suits; since the virus
reportedly left the country, the author violated U. S. export
regulations (the binary contained a copy of crypt(), which is a
DES-derived encryption algorithm).

I sure hope that some organizations file some civil suits against the
guy.

					- Bill

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