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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The virus
Summary: WAKE UP FOLKS!
Message-ID: <16608@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 88 11:40:43 GMT
References: <5330@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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In-reply-to: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)

In article <5330@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs (Gene Spafford) writes:
>In article <11581@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>>It sure would be nice if Morris (or someone at Cornell with access to his
>>files) were to release the complete, original source for the object portion
>>of the virus.

>Good heavens, no!  At least, it shouldn't be widely published!  The
>virus, as is, needs only a few small changes and it could be sent out
>again to infect all those systems that don't have all the necessary
>patches in place.  Plus, there are other "backdoors" (known and not yet
>known) into systems that could be added in.  The result could be a real
>mess if someone else decides to try a "better" version of the worm.

The result could *also* be a real mess if you all think the bad guys are
going to be slowed down very much by keeping the code a "secret".

    Good thing we don't have to worry about security down here at UC
    BUGSFORBRAINS, since Gene and company are going to keep the key
    critical stuff hush hush for us.
                            --famous last words, the unknown sysadmin

What was it that H P Lovecraft said about "fear"?

So regarding the release of the code:

 ___ All in favor of once-a-month INTERNET random fire drills say AYE.
 ___ All in favor of once-a-lifetime INTERNET catastrophic debacles say NO.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720