From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MISSING_HEADERS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id c5be6528 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:18:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1FFCE9B5BE; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:18:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB5789B483; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:17:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 52E6693DBE; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:17:30 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 447 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:17:29 AEST Received: from mail.cheswick.com (unknown [96.93.158.218]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51DA293D9E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:17:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from rhus.local (farmgate.cheswick.com [96.93.158.217]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail.cheswick.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43A2C2383AE for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:09:57 -0500 (EST) From: William Cheswick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.0 \(3601.0.10\)) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:10:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <1573598358.7551.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-Id: <977155D5-559B-4850-8D65-F0D6FA043A25@cheswick.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3601.0.10) Subject: Re: [TUHS] buffer overflow (Re: Happy birthday Morris worm X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" BTW, Bob Morris was not a Senior, and had no middle name. It is my = understanding that he inserted an =E2=80=9Ch=E2=80=9D when a middle = initial was demanded at the Labs, hence =E2=80=9Crhm=E2=80=9D. His son is Robert Tappan Morris, Labs login and general tag =E2=80=9Crtm,"= is not a junior. (I had to fight spelling correction on this Mac so much for this post = that I have turned it off.) > On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:43 PM, John P. Linderman = wrote: >=20 > Lorinda Cherry told me that that RTM (senior) used to test people's = programs by feeding them to themselves as input, a.out < a.out. It = helped cure people of the assumption that a program would only see = "reasonable" inputs.