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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The fingerd Bug in the Popular Press
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Date: 14 Nov 88 04:08:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: moore%cdr.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP's message of 13 Nov 88 22:32:51 GMT

In article <545@wasatch.uucp>, Tim Moore (moore@cdr.utah.edu) writes:
>How many references have people seen to the fingerd bug in the press?
>I've only seen one article in a newspaper that mentioned it: the
>Boston Globe, Sunday Nov. 6, mentioned a bug in a "Fingerdaemon"
>program, but never gave more details on the nature of the bug.

  The program All Things Considered ran on Thursday (11/10?) mentioned
it, and described both the operation of 'finger' and the nature of the
bug (an overflow condition) in some detail (a little dramatized,
but...).  Just goes to show you public radio's still the best.


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