From: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:56:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1573592179.5935.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> (raw)
I think I recall an explicit statement somewhere from an
interview with Robert that the worm was inspired partly
by Shockwave Rider.
I confess my immediate reaction to the worm was uncontrollable
laughter. I was out of town when it happened, so I first
heard it from a newspaper article (and wasn't caught up in
fighting it or I'd have laughed a lot less, of course); and
it seemed to me hilarious when I read that Robert was behind
it. He had interned with 1127 for a few summers while I was
there, so I knew him as very bright but often a bit careless
about details; that seemed an exact match for the worm.
My longer-term reaction was to completely drop my sloppy
old habit (common in those days not just in my code but in
that of many others) of ignoring possible buffer overflows.
I find it mind-boggling that people still make that mistake;
it has been literal decades since the lesson was rubbed in
our community's collective noses. I am very disappointed
that programming education seems not to care enough about
this sort of thing, even today.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
next reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 20:56 Norman Wilson [this message]
2019-11-12 22:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 22:10 ` [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: " Bakul Shah
2019-11-12 22:14 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:41 ` Robert Clausecker
2019-11-12 22:49 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-12 23:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13 0:38 ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-13 1:09 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-13 0:24 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-12 22:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-12 23:27 ` Arthur Krewat
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1911191443530.10845@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2019-11-21 20:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 20:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-21 21:04 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-21 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-21 21:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-11-13 7:35 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2019-11-13 18:02 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-13 18:49 ` Tyler Adams
2019-11-13 19:15 ` [TUHS] #defines and enums ron
2019-11-13 21:11 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-13 21:22 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday Morris worm [ really programming education ] Chet Ramey
2019-11-15 22:49 ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-15 23:59 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-15 14:31 [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris worm Doug McIlroy
2019-11-15 14:39 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-13 13:47 [TUHS] Happy birthday " Doug McIlroy
2019-11-12 22:24 Norman Wilson
[not found] <mailman.3.1572832803.30037.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-11-04 18:10 ` Paul McJones
2019-11-04 18:57 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-04 19:24 ` Richard Salz
2019-11-05 3:48 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-05 16:04 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-11-06 10:37 ` arnold
2019-11-06 13:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-11-04 19:25 ` SPC
2019-11-04 20:27 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-04 22:10 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-05 0:25 ` Anthony Martin
2019-11-02 14:12 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-02 20:12 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-03 17:12 ` Paul Winalski
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