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No, it is not illegal to distribute malware by itself, but it is illegal to trick people into installing malware. The latter was the goal of the XZ contributor.


I assume you're talking from a USC perspective? Can you say which specific law, chapter, and clause applies?


I would somewhat agree, but then come to mind "what is the "legal" definition of malware ?".

Some people would say that most drm software would act like malware/ransomware.

And tricking people to install such software is only matter of an ambiguously worded checkbox.




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