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From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Message-ID: <2310@datapg.MN.ORG>
Date: 8 Nov 88 21:29:56 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <12081@dscatl.UUCP> <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5331@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
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In article <5331@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
...
>>In article <12081@dscatl.UUCP>, lindsay@dscatl (Lindsay Cleveland) writes:
>>>I would surmise that a lot of the sites who *were* damaged by the
>>>virus and expended much real cash in man-hours (overtime!) chasing it

Each site should record how much the Internet worm cost them, and someone
(on the Internet--I'm too distant) should volunteer to collect that
information.  This information should be calculated now before it is lost
to history.

...
>that Sun Microsystems will expend a few $100K on this -- not only to
>eradicate the worm in their internal network, but they will have the
>expense of FedEx'ing copies of patches to all their sites under
>maintenance.  DEC will have similar costs.  Then there is BBN and....

Costs of eradicating the worm should be separated from costs of fixing
a bug, particularly known bugs.
-- 
Scot E. Wilcoxon  sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG    {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco
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