Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messages.

mmotyka at lsil.com mmotyka at lsil.com
Fri Aug 3 15:29:14 PDT 2001


Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
> 
> >I like the idea of making a remailer part of a worm but it might be just
> >as well to make it an inherent part of a product since people will
> >attempt to eradicate a worm.
> 
> And succeed.  How many copies of "melissa" have you seen lately?
> 
> Coding a remailer, *and* coding a worm, for just one week's worth
> of play before they stomp it, is not worthwhile.
> 
>                                 Bear
>
I think the "well behaved worm" prescribed by Tim might live longer
since I read that as unobtrusive and generally benign but for some
tolerable amount of bandwidth. Still, it would fall short of the effect
you'd get if it were in a product that every teenager on the planet
wanted to run.





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