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* [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
@ 2018-11-01 19:55 dave
  2018-11-01 23:49 ` cym224
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From: dave @ 2018-11-01 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)


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.

-- Dave


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* [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
  2018-11-01 19:55 [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! dave
@ 2018-11-01 23:49 ` cym224
  2018-11-02  1:02   ` dave
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: cym224 @ 2018-11-01 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)


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
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* [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
  2018-11-01 23:49 ` cym224
@ 2018-11-02  1:02   ` dave
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: dave @ 2018-11-02  1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)


On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Nemo Nusquam wrote:

> Must have certainly embarrased his father.

It certainly did :-)  I understand he received a stern "talk"...

-- Dave


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* [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
@ 2019-11-01 20:36 dave
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From: dave @ 2019-11-01 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)


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.

-- Dave


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