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From: dle@CSL.SRI.COM (David L. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: a holiday gift from Robert "wormer" Morris
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Date: 16 Nov 88 21:21:34 GMT
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> William J. King <bill@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> writes:
> ...
> Furthermore:
>     3.  lets not celebrate movies such as 'War Games' where the hacker kid
>         breaks the law numerous times AND gets off.
>     4.  Lets engineer better operating systems!
>     5.  More distribution of binary systems and less source code.
>      

While I am tired of this topic, I couldn't let this go by without a
comment.  I agree with 3 & 4 with an emphasis on 4.  But distribution
of more binary is crazy.  Source code was not a real issue in the
current virus EXCEPT that the lack of it kept many sites from
immediately fixing the problems.  A good hacker never needs source to
figure out flaws in a design especially when the flaw is as well known
as the Sendmail one.  All a hacker has to do is come up with a create
use for it.

-dle