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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham 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 1a44dcfb for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:52:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 98FF593D9F; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:52:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B0193D71; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:52:10 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="YEaXVAHQ"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9732093D71; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:52:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ua1-f47.google.com (mail-ua1-f47.google.com [209.85.222.47]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 307FE93D59 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:52:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ua1-f47.google.com with SMTP id w10so1505374uar.12 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:52:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=IOCLQaBRy+vBUGuAWedc8T7m9Mr3Rkk8IXPQVh39bos=; b=YEaXVAHQu29PF3vHNUXBm7LpKsoYi5L30wq7z+XGhFnSQJ37dHRpbld/H/HEDH4ipq 0DHtLcK+eVWsPQUsEY9UlMSsWiu+pRKJX6SANG9riMCW9JC8H40jOAShylT2RolENggR IQglOQLTjZic13Ly484h/hB3EOWbQ/cjaXjfLMyJ3Q2g34bW/jRIbd0TwSJ0TgJBUxci heFVTbbHEh8RQvlWL8u2ocXVMeMFZ4oYGufdWn0myUOeVlB582rJJz1W0VUMw+mtPLGw eqAPAvJtf8TKL6SlM73keqNUnetZn6suapCjRP0K/2xuXQGgTaoE2mcpA1sCiSCZW70n mhjA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=IOCLQaBRy+vBUGuAWedc8T7m9Mr3Rkk8IXPQVh39bos=; b=AvMCEkVTJ12PvhrjtUDJRkWxNN53hbxzYlLv/0bh0Rp2UH1o6QSJqXFbdjnoFOD+pv 3mKRDhagd7N3DO6IZByW6PMD3S5F5Ds5D6iy8iSNGtN3w0vH+tQSZ1lhnWXkPUMuZsRi w9pc8j1Yc9Z8pf1wChZdRMjKPqQVXXaHmGFWwj29URDdb/yafwx3243e+h4OWTpR0aTP +0vMneywBZu2PKG8pan6LHlUfJK0voipYfjFzByhPXM1F39esAUTCZE+lO9lgtdE3aC3 6snX+xB1pq2LL7o+lLKA1uu7xZs54X9QtOdsL3Fq9fycbG0B2Xr+gbC5ov9TO0yEC8Iy 9oag== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUsOp5BnA9SWylIqKa9q/c1W8vWNDAa6B1unzBqfyHIhk0MIPPz gjzp/O5OHmkKIyd+Lgif5SOpSInpojDeUuI1gvliJzOp X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzI0RrtqoHV4ej4/fcYUQFRVVEo5TJhJA82WdPfMTxBXyYV5kWAGRn2IfC6Ng311fkYAkmpWWED9XcWXB47/Oc= X-Received: by 2002:a9f:3015:: with SMTP id h21mr7695371uab.95.1574373128157; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:52:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <977155D5-559B-4850-8D65-F0D6FA043A25@cheswick.com> In-Reply-To: From: "John P. Linderman" Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:51:56 -0500 Message-ID: To: Steve Johnson Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000000c3fa90597e24f82" 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" --0000000000000c3fa90597e24f82 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Perhaps I should have said "The Big Enchilada", although I have only second-hand information that that uniquely identified Bob Morris. On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:13 PM Steve Johnson wrote: > Not everyone at the labs had a three-letter login. Bjarne Stroustrup had > the login bs, despite several gentle suggestions from myself and others > that he add a middle initial... > Steve > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 21, 2019, at 5:18 AM, William Cheswick wrote= : > > > > =EF=BB=BFBTW, 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 initi= al 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=9Crt= m," 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: > >> > >> 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. > > > > --0000000000000c3fa90597e24f82 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Per= haps I should have said "The Big Enchilada", although I have only= second-hand information that that uniquely identified Bob Morris.

On = Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:13 PM Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com> wrote:
Not everyone at the labs had a three-letter login.=C2= =A0 Bjarne Stroustrup had the login bs, despite several gentle suggestions = from myself and others that he add a middle initial...
Steve

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 21, 2019, at 5:18 AM, William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:
>
> =EF=BB=BFBTW, Bob Morris was not a Senior, and had no middle name.=C2= =A0 It is my understanding that he inserted an =E2=80=9Ch=E2=80=9D when a m= iddle 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=9Cr= tm," 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 <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote: >>
>> Lorinda Cherry told me that that RTM (senior) used to test people&= #39;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 "r= easonable" inputs.
>

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