From: solman@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 17:26:47 PDT
To: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
Subject: Legality of suverting computational cycles via Microsoft
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Does anybody here know if it is illegal to get unwiting users to download
benign viruses via MSN?

Doesn't this sort of hole, by its very nature, make it trivial for people
to violate Europes future electronic privacy laws? (despite Microsoft's
guarantee that MSN would follow those rules.)

JWS