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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gemma Peter wrote: > > Found an interesting article on the New Scientist website about a > friendly worm. > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994070 Friendly is the wrong phrase.... Misguided fits better. This worm was causing all sorts of mischief, probably due to it overloading routers. It is almost impossible to predict the effects of releasing this kind of software into the wild, and therefore very irresponsible, hopefully the police services will track down and prosecute the authors of both worms. I take a similar view to farming genetically modified organisms, for similar reasons. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Q0ZCGFXfHI9FVgYRAh/+AJ4lISwCCxZWWjnKaNTjH5B8ijEN9wCbBZKJ uPTlPR/bIn3Ethn5ngqB5R8= =LTYp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.