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Saturday, August 26, 2000

Liberty Author Writes PalmOS Trojan -- 10:42 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The author of Liberty (the Gameboy emulator for PalmOS devices) is also the author of the first Trojan Horse, of sorts, for the PalmOS. He wrote a fake crack for Liberty which was supposed to make a shareware version the same as the registered version. In reality, it is a Trojan Horse which deletes all programs stored on your Palm device. He attempts to explain and defend his actions on PalmStation.

My take? If you are downloading cracks, you are playing with fire. However, this doesn't give him the right to release destructive code and hide behind the old "I didn't intend it to spread" defense. As if releasing it on IRC was going to keep it private. It was stupid and the author deserves all the flak he's going to get. It's a pity to an extent, since Liberty is some very cool code.

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