From: "Thaddeus J. Beier" <thad@hammerhead.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:45:16 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: IWD_ism
Message-ID: <32D172D6.2781@hammerhead.com>
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John Young wrote:
> 
> 1-6-96.
> 
> "Information-Warfare Defense Is Urged"
> 
>    The Defense Science Board said the Pentagon should
>    launch counterattacks against computer hackers by
>    injecting the attackers'  computers with "a polymorphic
>    virus that wipes out the system, takes it down for weeks."
> 

This is completely unbelievable, who are these people?
I believe that the polymorphic virus is originally from
the classic "Shockwave Rider" and was seen as an impossible
fiction even in that book of improbable fiction.

-- Thaddeus Beier                     thad@hammerhead.com
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