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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dumbmoney who wrote (56885)	4/30/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570837

<The purpose of the Zero Knowledge demo was to show that the utility-program method of securing the ID can be circumvented. Obviously, Zero Knowledge are not rogue for pointing out the flaws in Intel's security, and the demo program is not a virus.> The program can be implemented in a virus, however. That's the key. And I understand that Zero Knowledge systems intended only to show how to work about the processor ID software switch. But that's the same thing that one guy said in his defense of the Melissa virus writer. He said that their purpose was only to show how buggy and insecure Microsoft products were. Now I'm not saying that Zero Knowledge systems are just as bad virus writers, but I am saying that their program can be and will be implemented in viruses. Either way, a malicious program is a malicious program, even if the intentions of the writer aren't malicious. Tenchusatsu