1 Mar
2013
1 Mar
'13
5:13 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:18:51PM -0700, Richard wrote:
In article <512FE45E.5000602 at jwsss.com>,
Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com> writes:
Well, back then the internet was a much more open, trusting environment.
And even back then, _proper_ system setup safeguards (limiting access to
rsh/rlogin, enforcing strong passwords, ...) could have severly limited
the spread of the worm.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
The lack of exploits does not mean there will be
none. There are still
vulnerabilities which could work on a linux machine as well as any of
the PC or Macos ones as well as any.
How quickly people forget that the first major internet
(unintentional) DDOS attack was all against unix machines.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm>