From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 17:12:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W79n_eGAtdZLfT8PQppv+E5Uyrc9kM3RMQZ1bSpfiPzXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1911020732480.11612@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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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: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-01 20:36 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-01 21:12 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2019-11-01 21:55 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Clem Cole
2019-11-01 22:25 ` 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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2017-11-16 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-16 23:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-03 10:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-03 11:20 ` arnold
2017-11-03 13:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-03 19:26 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-03 20:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-03 0:53 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-03 1:39 ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-03 9:25 ` arnold
2017-11-02 13:46 Norman Wilson
2017-11-02 14:32 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02 14:42 ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 15:00 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-02 15:26 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-02 16:48 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:50 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:52 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:54 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:56 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:57 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:00 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:57 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 15:25 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 15:52 ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 18:42 ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-02 12:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-02 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 3:46 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-02 5:53 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-01 22:17 Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 22:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 16:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-01 23:03 ` Charles H. Sauer
2017-11-01 23:15 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-02 0:06 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-02 0:09 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 1:08 ` Clem cole
2017-11-02 8:18 ` arnold
2017-11-02 17:56 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 18:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-02 20:32 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 21:59 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 22:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-04 1:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-15 21:36 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-15 21:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16 1:05 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16 1:22 ` Will Senn
2017-11-16 1:56 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16 2:41 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16 3:00 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16 7:39 ` Steve Simon
2017-11-16 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 15:58 ` Jon Steinhart
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