Kids do not write viruses. Perhaps one in a billion possess the knowledge to do so but the skill required to write this type of code are limited to well educated/industry experienced computer brains. Hollywood leads us to believe kids write worms and other viruses but the reality is they don't. Kids can easily aquire nasty code fragments from the net written by well experienced programmers, and distribute it to friends etc then brag when disaster strikes, these are script kiddies and they have no idea about the underlying code and how it operates yet they know what it is capable of. So naturally i believe a course in this subject is a great idea. This article is a pile of poop and i can't believe they actually let this bozo write for them. "This just in", you are not funny and your articles suck. A course which enlightens students on the mechanics of virus writing is a great step forward. Although a policeman doesn't need to kill someone to understand a killer, he needs to be able to get in their mind and understand it, in order to catch them. I say this course will rock and I wish I were in Calgary.

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