From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 14:55:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2Mth-WEECA6PCc_KcG_aKpfdWV+8dBsuj87MzAgbiwF3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W79n_eGAtdZLfT8PQppv+E5Uyrc9kM3RMQZ1bSpfiPzXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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+1. Well said Dan.
We all have made and will make mistakes in the future. It was an error and
we all learned from it. It’s not helpful to continue to hark back on it.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:13 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 4:37 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@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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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-01 20:36 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2019-11-01 21:12 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-01 21:55 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2019-11-01 22:25 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " A. P. Garcia
2019-11-01 21:49 ` [TUHS] " A. P. Garcia
2019-11-02 6:35 ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02 6:44 ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02 7:31 ` A. P. Garcia
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