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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Fun things to do to RTM (was: Internet worm)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.184422.22385@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:44:22 GMT
- References: <723666888.27357@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec08.161759.22787@wap.oau.org> <DERAADT.92Dec9130754@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <1992Dec11.162027.373@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1gfgjtINNb91@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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- In <1gfgjtINNb91@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
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- >fred j mccall asks:
- >|> Is there any doubt that Morris released the Worm deliberately
- >|> (whatever his intentions were with regard to it causing loss or
- >|> damage) and that he deliberately intended for it to enter other
- >|> peoples' systems and od things without permission?
-
- >based on discussions with people who were there at the time and other
- >personal knowledge, i am under the impression that the release of the
- >worm to the internet at large was accidental.
-
- I'm kind of curious as to how one writes and releases a worm by
- accident. How do you explain the code that was intended to misdirect
- 'pursuers' from following it back by pointing them at another
- computer?
-
- [I'm referring to the 'call back' code to the Berkeley (?) computer
- that the Worm contained.]
-
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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