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From: alb@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: rtm and uucp
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Date: 20 Nov 88 21:19:19 GMT
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In article <13153@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>
>You misunderstand; he's not talking about RTMorris, he's talking about the
>kind of peoplke who wrote sendmail, and fingerd, and other programs that
>might have inadvertent security holes in them.  And we've *all* done it at
>one time or another.  An independent audit of "important" code is a good
>idea.
>

What "kind" of peoplke [sic] write sendmail, fingerd, etc.?  Perhaps
it would just be easier, if we can identify "them," to put them in
some sort of prison camp and be done with them.