I don't understand why we need to have CHECKs in the first place. If everyone has to write some bullshit reasons instead of being blunt that they are just curio

I don't understand why we need to have CHECKs in the first place. If everyone has to write some bullshit reasons instead of being blunt that they are just curious about how professional virus and malware is written, what is the point of reading those essays? If we fear people start developing malware and virus, think about all those web design classes out there where students don't realize how vulnerable their implementations are. Think about all the free sec tools out there. > Most anti-virus companies (including ours) have a policy against hiring former virus writers for anti-virus work What? Who do they hire then? I supposed I am qualified because I never written a serious virus/trojan. Would I call rm -rf a joke? There was a guy discovered a way to create botnet by XSS a Gmail chrome extension two days ago. Would anyone call that some form of trojan? My friend did this prank in a computer lab. He knows the local IP to each computer and they are sequential. He wrote a shell script which (1) screen capture the current screen on each computer, send that image to the adjacent computer, and then change the background. I think your enemy can also be your friends. If people are curious, they will find a way to beat their curiosity. If they are technically smart, they can write virus that bypass AV scanner. Hey, those are the guys you want to hire. Are they suggesting that none of the researchers working for these AV labs have never written some form of virus or malware or Trojan prior to employment?