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From: WHMurray@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: The British Computer Virus Research Centre
Message-ID: <0008.8907281123.AA16682@ge.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 89 23:31:00 GMT
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I am not yet ready to institutionalize viruses.  The rush to do so
strikes me as unseemly opportunism.

I recognize the need to do research and the value of the work done to
date.  However, that work demonstrates that it can be done in existing
institutions with broad and noble missions.  Narrow, specialized
institutions are not required.  There creation runs the risk of
establishing the very behavior that they rightfully resist.

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