[COFF] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 11/01/18 15:55, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known
> vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out
> a metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it
> was accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network
> first).

Must have certainly embarrased his father.

N.

> A temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir
> /tmp/sh".
>
> Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere.
>
> -- Dave
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