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From: bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon E Bowen)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A *Big* Thank You
Message-ID: <2517@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 88 00:18:29 GMT
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In article <1294@tmpmbx.UUCP> pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner) writes:
>Maybe you should better thank this guy as well, since he revealed some
>nasty bugs in widespread operating systems.  He SURELY showed everyone that
>computer systems are not secure, and that security IS a thing one has to be
>aware of.

People keep saying this. Fact is, I already knew that computer systems are
not secure. I knew that the Internet is not secure. I knew that sendmail is
one of the most insecure mailers around. And I sure hope no one out there
thought differently even before the worm. He didn't teach me a whole lot. He
just wasted my time. And I'm not going to thank someone for wasting my time.


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