Talk:David L. Smith (virus writer)

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Contents 1 Specific citations needed 2 Author's motivation? 3 Current status 4 Criminal charges

[edit] Specific citations needed

The "References" section below the article looks more like a bibliography than anything else. The sheer amount of detail in each paragraph compels this article to include citations. I added an unreferenced tag for this reason. Rob Rosenberger 21:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Author's motivation?

Anyone know specifically what his motivation for writing this code was?

[edit] Current status

Where is he now? Article ends where his sentence begins. --Frank Lofaro Jr. 19:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criminal charges

"He was one of the first people to ever be prosecuted for writing a virus."

As far as my understanding goes, he was not prosecuted for writing it, but for knowingly spreading it (i.e. uploading to Usenet). It is not illegal to write a virus, is it? --jasker 21:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)