On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:21, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:53, Eben King wrote:
> > 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.
>
> For security yes.
>
> > > 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.
>
> And as the first worm has been one of the few under unices.
There is an ieee article on how the morris worm was reverse engineered out
there from '88. If you want a good read.
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