Plan to outlaw hacking virus that infected the Internet system a year ago (see Nature 340, 329; 1989). It has been argued by some in the United States that any law that made unauthorized entry a crime, regardless of intent or authority, would be unworkable: in the Morris case, a number of network users put together "patches" that protected computers from infection and distributed them, in a freelance manner, across the network. Under a law that condemned Morris, would they also be guilty? 0
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