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From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Maybe NSA did it
Message-ID: <1446@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 14:30:25 GMT
Organization: Anasazi Inc., Phoenix AZ
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I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but is it possible that
NSA (or the National Computer Security Center [or whatever it's called])
put Mr. Morris up to it? The connection is far from subtle! A relatively
harmless virus is certainly one way to get attention to a potentially
far more serious problem that NSA has been complaining about for quite
a while.

A personal note: once upon a long time (19 years) ago I was a young
hacker at University of Kansas. Poked a hole in GECOS-III and, looking for
a way to leave my spoor, changed the BCD system date to a name. This
screwed up payroll and got me in trouble, but nothing terrible happened
to me. If Mr. Morris wasn't put up to his tricks by NSA, I suspect he 
was a more modern version of myself (or many of us here on the net). I
was stupid to do it, but learned my lesson and have since had a
productive career in systems work. I hope Mr. Morris doesn't get
clobbered too badly - he obviously didn't have malicous intent
or there would be a lot of sites with no files left by now!
-- 
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The opinions expressed here are obviously not mine, so they must be
someone else's. :-)