Good Worms and Human Rights
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2006-10-31
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The extent of Internet censorship in countries like China is
regularly tested, but the testing methods used from within a censored country
can entail risk for humans. A benevolent worm can be used for testing instead:
the worm s selfreplication, long the bane of suggested benevolent viruses and
worms, is shown to be essential here. We describe the design of this
benevolent worm, along with some other related applications for it. A full
technical, ethical, and legal analysis is provided.
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Computer Science