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From: klg@dukeac.UUCP (Kim Greer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet
Message-ID: <1100@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 15:21:16 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <12081@dscatl.UUCP> <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <159@loci.UUCP>
Reply-To: klg@dukeac.UUCP (Kim Greer)
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Organization: Academic Computing, Duke University, Durham, NC
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In article <159@loci.UUCP= clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow) writes:
=In article <16600@agate.BERKELEY.EDU=, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
== 
== Yup, good show there.  I hope you're not smugly counting on the next rogue
== code to be so easy to notice and eliminate by some of my fellow Berkeley
== grad students?  DO SOMETHING **NOW** TO PROTECT YOURSELVES!  WAKE UP FOLKS!
== 
=
=	Wouldn't it help to intermix computer types so that there wouldn't
=	be so many like systems talking to each other?  If the worm works
=	on Sun's and BSD's and is passed between them then it seems that
=	putting some non-target system between them could interfer with
=	it's spread.  I don't know enough about the problem to really say
=	but this sounds like the same problem that can occur in agriculture
=	if crops aren't rotated.
=-- 
=			CLBrunow - KA5SOF
=	clb@loci.uucp, loci@csccat.uucp, loci@killer.dallas.tx.us
=	  Loci Products, POB 833846-131, Richardson, Texas 75083

Yes, let's try this suggestion.  In a field, do not plant just corn.  Plant
corn, pineapple, oranges, grapes and kiwi-fruit.  That way, a plant disease
will not be able to spread from like plants to another.  Yes, this requires
that no two like-kind plants be side by side, but I guess that's the price
you have to pay.  Yes, I guess you would have more trouble trying to 
individually fertilize, water, till, plant, harvest ... , but (insert
previously used phrase here).

And let's not forget the computers.  Make every manufacturer have his own
operating system that is entirely different from every other manufacturer.
Do not let commonality be the medium by which computer diseases spread.

And don't let any person on the planet speak the same language as another.
That way we never have one person insult another.

And don't let any automobile use the same type of gasoline as another.  That
way, every manufacturer of cars can have his own tank at the service station
so that a "bad batch" of gasoline never gets into both a Ford and a Chevie.

End-sarcasm-mode.

Come on, grow up and get real.  There's too much freaking incompatibility
in computer stuff as there is now.

If something is busted, then fix it, and get back to some real work.

-KG
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