Would you hire a virus author?

Authors of the most recent MyDoom variant are apparently looking for work. Embedded in the code of the MyDoom.U worm is the following message: “We searching 4 work in AV industry.”

According to Graham Clulely, senior technology consultant for antivirus firm Sophos, no one in the industry would “touch them with a bargepole.”

http://www.virusthreatcenter.com/permalink.aspx?BlogId=32

Do you share Clulely’s opinion that once someone has become a virus writer there’s no going back? Would you hire someone with a proven virus-writing past?