On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:58:37 GMT, Roger Blake <rogblake10@iname10.com> wrote:
What did it do, and why doesn't it happen now?


Alan C

Alan Connor wrote:
feature enabled. The feature was for test purposes only and should have
been turned off before being distributed. Someone accidently left it on,
and nobody checked.

So Morris the younger exploited it.

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Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> writes:

]On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:58:37 GMT, Roger Blake <rogblake10@iname10.com> wrote:
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]> All well and good, but don't get cocky. Remember the very first
]> worm that hit the internet in the late 1980s? It attacked Unix systems.
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]What did it do, and why doesn't it happen now?

Designed and released by Morris, the son of the developer of the Unix password and
other security stuff. It attacked sendmail, and shut down most of the net, a lot
because people disconnected from the net and then could not find out how to
disable it. It attacked sendmail. What happened is that the hole he used was shut
( and he went to jail). This was the start of the security push by Unix people.
Not that all holes are shut, but more so.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:04:59 -0400, Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote:

Ahh. Gracias.


Alan C

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:10:19 +0000 (UTC), Bill Unruh <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

I see. Well, another reason to avoid that baroque behemoth sendmail.



Thanks Bill,

Alan C

On 13 Aug 2003 23:01:27 GMT, Juha Kustaa Siltala <jsiltala@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote:

Interesting story. Thanks.


Alan C