From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:49:17 -0400 Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <224e4e62-9e2b-0d99-9937-603f505856e6@gmail.com> On 11/01/18 15:55, Dave Horsfall wrote: > The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known > vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out > a metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it > was accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network > first). Must have certainly embarrased his father. N. > A temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir > /tmp/sh". > > Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere. > > -- Dave > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff