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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
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Subject: Re: Security Is Us
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:13:34 EDT
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In article <10966@Glacier.ARPA> conor@Glacier.ARPA (Conor Rafferty) writes:
>$ ls -l /dev/null
>crw-rw----  1 root       3,   2 Aug 20 16:00 /dev/null
>
>[sighted on su-fuji.arpa] 
>
>Don't want no pesky user-writeable security holes on this system...

Try doing the same for "/dev/tty" and a lot of inexplicable things will happen.
When this happened on our system, it took me AGES to find the cause.

P.S. It takes me 73 tapes to do a full dump on /dev/null at the moment :-).
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