From: crossd at gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:12:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W79n_eGAtdZLfT8PQppv+E5Uyrc9kM3RMQZ1bSpfiPzXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911020732480.11612@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 4:37 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> 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).
> A
> temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh".
>
> Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere.
>
This comes up every year, but could I ask that you please stop referring to
Robert T. Morris as an idiot? He acted foolishly and destructively, yes,
but he was quite young at the time and he paid for his mistake. He's gone
on to do very good work in systems and have a productive career; there
really is no need to continue to castigate him in this manner for a mistake
he made 31 years ago.
- Dan C.
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2019-11-01 20:36 [COFF] " dave
2019-11-01 21:12 ` crossd [this message]
2019-11-01 21:55 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " clemc
2019-11-01 22:25 ` a.phillip.garcia
2019-11-01 21:49 ` a.phillip.garcia
2019-11-02 6:35 ` wlc
2019-11-02 6:44 ` wlc
2019-11-02 7:31 ` a.phillip.garcia
2019-11-03 2:05 rudi.j.blom
2019-11-03 4:21 ` clemc
2019-11-03 7:05 ` rudi.j.blom
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