Depressing

in the early morning on Wednesday, the 4th of June 2003 by Chad

Many people have been blogging about the virus writing course put on by the University of Calgary.

I’m not sure we have to worry all that much. Think about it, only lamerz will be taking it. Truly talented coders wouldn’t get caught dead in a class like that. And how would it be graded? Do you only get an A+ if your virus escapes into the wild and shuts down the internet? And the logistics. Of course the lab will be disconnected from the world at large. But this also means that those computers should never be used anywhere else. They will have no way to know if a virus is on those machines from a prior class. And how will homework be handled? You know these people taking the course will be working on their normal dorm computers. Something is bound to get free.

But this actually makes it really easy. Should anything get free, and it infects the company I work for, we’ll have several lawyers trying to figure out what to do with the new university we will then own.