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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Message-ID: <10564@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 88 22:36:35 GMT
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But Karl ...

What about the anectdote that <of f*rt, I can't remember the name of
that guy at oddjob ... him tho ... Pooh's boyfriend ... yeah, that guy,
but what's his name?? Oh, Matt Crawford> posted to "phage" about "a friend
who works for some securities firm"  (Pooh?)  who found out that someone
had reported the ftpd bug to the vendor (if Pooh, that'd be Sun) over
a year ago ... AND THE VENDOR NEVER FIXED IT!

A lot of places won't fix this bug because they don't trust anything
their vendor doesn't provide.  Or maybe the vendor did something that's
on the verge of proprietary and you can't just plug Berkeley stuff
in and go on.

I've fixed the ftp&finger bugs here, had to have a small fight in order
to be able to do it, and even told the other people on campus that
it exists.  Have they fixed it?  Weeell... that would be telling.

It doesn't work very well.  Yes it works for those of us who have
the time to interact with the network all the time.  (Rather, are
paid to interact with the network all the time).  It doesn't work
for "the rest of them".
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