Fwd: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!

[John Newman]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
Sent: November 1, 2019 8:36:39 PM UTC
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff at tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!

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). A 
temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh".

Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere.

-- Dave