Re: security? ? ?

From: Michael Erskine (osiris_at_deltaville.net)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: 15 Jul 2003 19:29:09 -0700

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<yB8Ia.290$b8.125@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> Kenneth A Kauffman wrote:
>
> > "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote in message
>
>
> >>Ask any of us who tangled with the Morris Worm. There tend to be plenty
> >>of production servers in places where "we have a firewall" is used as an
> >>excuse not to keep systems up to date. For kernels, especially, dealing
> >>with custom hardware, installing a new kernel is a big deal.
> >>
> >>Try it on those stupid Sun Cobalt Raq machines, or on everybody's Ipaq,
> >>or on the Linksys routers, and you have a bit of an adventure to get
> >>them all cleaned up.
> >>
> >
> >
> > hey Nico... Is this the same guy at IBM using ftp and remote procedures via
> > FTP? :)
>
> Ghods I hope not. If you mean Robert Morris, the author of the Morris
> Worm, I can point you to where he's working these days....

Guess he's out of jail... Let's hope he isn't listening to his dad's
unauthorized and probably classified speculations anymore...

-m-