In a House technology Subcommittee, John Schwartz, president of Symantec, called for the illegalization of information and techniques that could be construed to aid hackers.

Virus writers and hackers often learn from each other and share automated tools and code on websites. By making it illegal to post malicious code and information, Schwarz implied, the number of attacks would be reduced. He did not say, though, how legislators would determine the difference between malicious information and that used for legitimate security research, or whether such a law might compromise freedom of speech.