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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a holiday gift from Robert "wormer" Morris
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Date: 8 Nov 88 15:56:40 GMT
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>According to press reports, RM spent his summers working at AT&T
>on "Unix Communications Software Security". Anyone with a source
>license check to see if he slipped a trojan horse into uucico
>or uuxqt or something?

      This is serious.  The knowledge that this person had the opportunity to
tamper with the master source code for UNIX is very worrisome.  A major 
examination of all AT&T-provided security related code is in order.

      We may not be at the end of this yet.


					John Nagle