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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Crashing your own machine
Message-ID: <16845@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 88 09:25:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: rosenblg@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary J. Rosenblum)

In article <2210005@acf3.NYU.EDU>, rosenblg@acf3 (Gary J. Rosenblum) writes:
>On another note, today I found a student running this wonderful
>little ditty, which he named oddly enough virus.c:

>	main() { while (1) fork (); }

>and he effectively halted a small vax (11/750).

What's the point?  This is all internal to one machine, and the idea
presumably is that every site polices its own users.  Colleges toler-
ate nonsense more than companies, and the users know it.

In contrast, the Morris worm was that someone you CAN'T get at managed
to bring your machine to a halt.  (Notice how many people WANT to get
at him?)

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720