Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bionet!agate!shelby!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!matrx!abc From: abc@Matrix.COM (Alan Clegg) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Great Christmas Worm Message-ID: <1990Sep13.145046.7262@Matrix.COM> Date: 13 Sep 90 14:50:46 GMT References: <9009122126.aa05627@mvax.cc.ic.ac.uk> <1411@cs.nps.navy.mil> Reply-To: /dev/null Organization: Matrix Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina Lines: 37 Approved: ByWhoEverIWantItToBe@Right_Here In article <1411@cs.nps.navy.mil> spl@cs.nps.navy.mil (Steve Lamont) writes: >In article <9009122126.aa05627@mvax.cc.ic.ac.uk> g7ahn@cc.imperial.ac.uk writes: >>It looks like IBM JCL to me. Unfortunately our departmental >>IBM 4341 running VM/CMS is not networked. :-) > >Close. It's REXX, one of IBM's VM/CMS EXEC language. > >Fie on spreaders of stuff like this. Nix on Fie. If you think people couldn't write things like this without seeing it, you must be mistaken. This is the MOST SIMPLISTIC hack ever. If you are going to post something, post something that the average LUSER could NOT do. 8-) (or not). > > spl (the p stands for > pits of hell are too > good for them...) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess this means that "SECURITY BY OBSCURITY" is the way to go, huh? The fact that Unix World (or some such) published the base of the Internet worm, and that you can PURCHASE the REAL SOURCE to the worm from some hacker magazine means that they too should burn? Gee, I guess Gene Spafford should not have published his paper on the worm... might give me some ideas... NAH..... -- Alan B. Clegg uucp: ...!mcnc!matrx!abc Matrix Corporation inet: abc@matrix.com Raleigh, NC "They were all wrong. The workstation model is obsolete." A. Tanenbaum