RE: [funsec] Consumer Reports Slammed for Creating 'Test' Viruses

[Drsolly]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:

> Column Plug:  
> 
> Ethics and Virus Testing 
> 
> Opinion: How come discovering vulnerabilities and writing exploits is
> "research," but viruses for testing is a crime against humanity? 
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2005814,00.asp
 
You missed the main argument against what CR did. The results they got 
will randomly favour whichever products are better that their choice of 
files. They didn't write viruses from scratch, they modified existing 
ones, right?