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From: vinge@sdsu.UUCP (Vernor Vinge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.att
Subject: 3BNET and TCP/IP security
Message-ID: <2932@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 19:14:09 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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(On ATT 3B2 computers) it seems that 3BNET user applications can still
be run after Wollongong TCP/IP has been installed. 
Isn't this a security problem (for the TCP/IP)? It seems to me that --
at a minimum -- fooling a TCP/IP server (like rwhod) would be possible.

-- Vernor Vinge
   Dept Math Sciences
   San Diego State University
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