VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 5 Dec 1988 Volume 1 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
Re: Morris's intent
RE: More on Morris
FYI: SECURITY has returned
Vested interest in viruses?
Re: Lock on my door
Paper virus hits the classifieds
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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 88 12:23:23 EST
From: "Homer W. Smith" <CTM%
[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Morris's intent
I would like to remind everyone that Mir system was flawed.
Homer
[Ed. In Gene Spafford's Internet Worm report, he raises some very
interesting possibilities as to the author(s)'s identity. The code
appears quite inconsistant, ranging from highly optimized
professionally written code (e.g., the crypt function works 9 times
faster than the BSD version") to amateurish code with multiple
(unused) global variables and subroutines that never get called.
Since Morris has not made a public statement acknowledging that he was
the (sole) author of the worm, to the best of my knowledge, is it safe
to even assume that he did (all) the work?]
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 88 13:51 EST
From: Chris Bracy <
[email protected]>
Subject: RE: More on Morris
>>> ... For example, it
>>>is a fact that the average lock on the entrance to the average American
>>>home can be picked in thirty seconds or less. However, you won't find
>>>any should have. Sincerely!
>
>No! I choose to have open windows on my house and doors that can be
>easily opened and closed. To argue that I should live in a bank vault
>to avoid the thugs is wrong. I should live as I choose, and if a thug
>enters and robs, or just enters, he or she is at fault and should be
>delt with. If my insurance goes up, that is my problem, but your
>right to walk in because I have installed poor or no locks is not
>granted.
But if the house would be in a mall or other high pedrestrian
district, people are bound to walk in. This is a better analogy to
the traffic on internet. Granted, then it would be by accident but
the house analogy isn't quite right.
Chris.
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 88 14:50 EST
From: Jim Shaffer <
[email protected]>
Subject: FYI: SECURITY has returned
In the light of the recent Internet problems (to put it lightly), I thought
that people on this list might be interested in another list which just
re-activated.
- --Jim
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From: IN%"
[email protected]" 3-DEC-1988 07:54:54.00
Subj: The List Returns
Sender: SECURITY Digest <
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Reply-to:
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Yes, you heard it correctly; the Security list is being reactivated
after a long vacation in limbo. The vax it was being distributed from
got sold off as a doorstop and replaced with this Sun 4/280 [an even
better personal workstation!].
[*lots* of stuff deleted]
Bitnet recipients can add themselves by sending a message to
LISTSERV@UGA containing
SUBm aim.rutgers.edu to
pyrite.rutgers.edu, if you happened to hear about it via outdated
material. If you are on a unix site that receives the misc.security
newsgroup, please read the material from there and save network
bandwidth, unless you have some special requirement. This list is
gatewayed to the newsgroup.
*Hobbit*
One of several jacks-of-all-trades for LCS at Rutgers
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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 88 14:56:26 EST
From: "Homer W. Smith" <CTM@CORNELLC>
Subject: Vested interest in viruses?
To: virus list <virus-l@lehiibm1>,
ethics-l@polygraph
Wouldn't it be in the interests of the people who SELL
anti virus software to INVENT and SPREAD viruses so that a demand
would be created for their own software? Seems like this is
bound to happen.
Homer
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 04:32:42 MST
From: fletch
- ->>home can be picked in thirty seconds or less. However, you won't find
- ->>any robber arguing that it was the homeowner's fault that he didn't have
- ->>a better lock on the door!
- ->
- ->Even though they probably should have. Sincerely!
- -
- -No! I choose to have open windows on my house and doors that can be
- -easily opened and closed. To argue that I should live in a bank vault
- -to avoid the thugs is wrong. I should live as I choose, and if a thug
- -enters and robs, or just enters, he or she is at fault and should be
- -delt with. If my insurance goes up, that is my problem, but your
- -right to walk in because I have installed poor or no locks is not
- -granted.
We all *should* live as we choose. In reality, criminals deprive us
daily of things ranging from those that will never be missed to those
that are irreplaceable. I dealt with this by providing superior safeguards
where appropriate. I hated it. I also hate rude "gotcha's" every bielong or are welcome.
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 88 16:27 EST
From: Lynn R Grant <
[email protected]>
Subject: Paper virus hits the classifieds
The Rethe
Friday, December 3, 1988 edition:
I'M THE PERSONALS Virus. Please type up an exact copy
of me and send it in.
I trust the editors of The Reader will limit the spread of this one.
Lynn R. Grant Technical Consultant Computer Associates International,
Inc.
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