The following was reported in Information Week Magazine:
A new course this fall at the University of Calgary will teach students how to write viruses and worms, along with the legal, ethical, and security issues related to creating malicious code. Developing more secure software requires this firsthand understanding, professor John Aycock said in a statement. But two groups representing IT security professionals condemn it. Russ Cooper of the security firm TruSecure Corp. and moderator of security mailing list NTBugtraq says, “We already have more than 60,000 viruses to dissect and study.”
-George V. Hulme (Internet Week)
Having been recently affected by one of those nasty little bugs, I tend to agree with Mr. Cooper. There is obviously enough knowledge out there already to write virus code, so why teach even more?
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