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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack
Message-ID: <8908@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Nov 88 21:40:46 GMT
References: <17519@adm.BRL.MIL> <8890@smoke.BRL.MIL> <270@popvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <270@popvax.harvard.edu> mohamed@popvax.UUCP (R06400@Mohamed Ellozy) writes:
-This is what irritates the living daylights out of so many of us.
-He "knows" of at least three other such holes.  He is thus more
-learned, perhaps even wiser, than we are.
-	BUT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO GET THEM CLOSED???
-Wizards who "know" about problems and pride themselves about it, but
-do nothing, are little better than those who mailiciously exploit them.

The BSD developers know of all three holes and have published fixes for
two of them.  BRL's network host tester will probe for them and inform
system administrators if they have these holes.

I'm waiting for an apology.