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Re: Proposal for removal of mICQ package



>>>>> In article <[🔎] 20030214080010.GA11005@evbergen.xs4all.nl>, Emile van Bergen <emile-deb@evbergen.xs4all.nl> writes:

 > Let's judge the offence at hand and not speculate about the
 > perpetrators mind set and the possible future much worse offenses
 > resulting from that.

 > This sounds *way* to much like "Sure he wasn't guilty of /that/,
 > but I'm estaaablishing a pettern of behaaaviour here, y'r honor".

	Fine. This particular cracker hid a poison pill in the
 program, which would attempt to evade developer checks, and, at a
 point in time, trigger to deny the use the services of the
 program. Denial of services trojan, rahter cleverly
 disguised. Still, the upstream is a cracker, and next time, he'll do
 worse.

	manoj
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