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Subject: Re: How about a virus?
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Date: 3 Jan 89 19:07:07 GMT
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In article <44471@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>You see, it's not a black and white, HDB or "shit" world we're living
>in.  It's even worse. Honeyman and I and others are conspiring. We're
>pretty damned devious ourselves. We've fixed the easy things years ago.
>We've even fixed the hard ones.
>
>Also, don't confuse the version of HDB that ATT ships with what
>Honeyman is running. Those HDB bugs you found he probably fixed years
>ago. AND, even worse, he told ME about them, so I fixed them in my
>version. (The fact that ATT doesn't seem to want his fixes is ATT's
>problem [and ATT's customers...])
>

So, how do we poor slobs get versions of the software *without* bugs? In
particular, those of us without source licenses and without common systems
(i.e. no binaries, thank you).

It's all very well to say that uunet is secure, but what about all of uunet's
neighbors?

btw, as an aside, I claim it is impossible to break into my UUCP system; it
doesn't run login, and only allows two hardwired commands (rmail and
cunbatch...).  The local mailer is equivalent to cat(1). The joys of being a
backwater system...