16 Jun
2010
16 Jun
'10
11:42 p.m.
On 6/16/2010 5:43 PM, Chris M wrote:
While working in an EMI lab in the late 80s, I was told by a guy that the crackers
provided the copy protection schemes (for machines like the C64), and *waited* to release
these tools to the public.
That's tinfoil-hat talk. I used to hear similar "proof" that the real
virus writers were Symantec, Mcafee, etc. to provide a market for their
tools, which is also crazy talk.
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