danm@tekig5.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) (03/15/88)
How can you trace a virus back to the creator? I don't think it can be done, so why raise dramatic cries of "let's go lynch them suckers!" Dan Milliron
edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Edwards) (03/16/88)
In article <2529@tekig5.TEK.COM>, danm@tekig5.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) writes: > > How can you trace a virus back to the creator? I don't think it can be done, > so why raise dramatic cries of "let's go lynch them suckers!" > Actually it is possible. There is a new relatively unknown field developing in forensic law enforcement which is called Body Field Magnetics. Each programmer carries a certain electromagnetic field ID on his person which is as recognizable as a finger print. While programming, some of this field leaves a binary pattern in unused parts of the object code after it has been compiled. Most students are unaware of this, but everyone has taken a CS101 class, during this period Body Magnetic signatures were taken from your files and stored in the Body Magnetics ID Center in Washington. Attempts are currently under way to match any of these Body Field signatures against the ones in the currently epidemic virus which is rampant in the Mac commun- ity. Unfortunately the BFMC (Body Field Magnetics Center) does not have a computer...so matching is being done by Shirley, a sweet little old lady at the BFMC who has almost no personal magnetism, using a glass plate and iron filings......:-)