Re: TNE virus revisited

>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 11:49:38 GMT+4622364:40
>From: [email removed] (Goldman of Chaos -- postmaster CRI-US)
>
>I've had a change of opinion about the viability
>of the TNE virus.  This is a result of the recent
>successful attack on a number of computers I'm
>responsible for.  Everything is under control now;
>however, we were disconnected from the internet
>for a few days while we sorted things out.

I don't have problems with the concept of a destructive virus
in Traveller.  I don't even have problems with the concept of
such a virus getting through the presumably excellent defenses
that a TL-15 society would develop in response to having been
exposed to other vires at various points in its development.
However, the idea of an unrecoverable virus that affects everyone
is indefensible.  And even if you fudge things enough to make
such a beast possible, the details of the TNE virus are still
not believeable

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