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The British government wants to halve the cost of Internet access by
2002—much to the chagrin of British Telecom—as well as giving all
schoolchildren the chance to use PCs. All very laudable, you might think, but
anti-virus software company Sophos (www.sophos.com) warned last week that a
sudden explosion of Net newbies might actually create an escalation in computer
virus attacks. How so? Well, they reason that we ought to be adding an ethical
dimension to IT teaching. “We need to stop children spreading viruses because
they think it’s cool, like stealing apples from an orchard,” warns Graham
Cluley,…