On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 09:12, SOTL wrote:
> > Recall that US military tanks, ships, plains all are using MS Windows as
> > the operating system for some functions.
>
> Over and beyond what Mike correctly points out, though it's poor security
> enough, they don't all run windows. In fact they are very poorly
> standardized.
That's a good thing -- a monoculture is bad.
> As Mike points out it is only a problem on that one computer where someone
> entered the root password and let the rootkit in. It does not now spread to
> all other boxes (unless you have windows then anything is possible). That
> does not occur under unices.
See the Morris worm. It exploited a bug in fingerd, IIRC.
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