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- Ah, the start of the rot began where?
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"On November 2nd, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris launched an application ostensibly designed to count the number of systems on the Internet. It was designed to propagate across Unix systems by exploiting several vulnerabilities, including a conceptual flaw in how r-services (rlogin, rsh, and rexec) authenticate connections, the archaic remote debug feature in Sendmail, and a buffer overflow in the finger daemon.
Good 'ole Unix. An example for all to follow... - Posted by: Scrat Posted on: 10/31/08 (Edited: 10/31/2008 @ 04:44) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Thanks for the history...
Qix77 | 10/31/08
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Ah, the start of the rot began where?
Scrat | 10/31/08
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And Microsoft allows it to continue
todbran@... | 10/31/08
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And 7 Versions Of Windows Later
itanalyst2@... | 10/31/08
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How so? nt
ye | 10/31/08
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ZDNet being an excessively pro MS site
Mikael_z | 11/02/08
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RE: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
alecco | 10/31/08
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RE: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
marco@... | 10/31/08
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Actually the net worm is much older than that!
gnace@... | 10/31/08
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20th anniversary of a worm in the wild
Clewin | 10/31/08
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Stiffer penalties
BALTHOR | 10/31/08
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10,000 years of civilization have shown.
kozmcrae | 11/02/08
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This could be when the hacker system was tied in
BALTHOR | 10/31/08
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worms
rushingturtle | 10/31/08
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worms
rushingturtle | 10/31/08
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RE: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
mlongbow@... | 11/01/08
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RE: Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!
2WiReD | 11/02/08
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I'm not proud of this (be it a warning!)
jakelly404@... | 11/02/08
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Happens...
gnesterenko | 11/04/08
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