> > > 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.
>
> --
> James S. Haydon
Also the debug mode of sendmail was involved, as I recall.
There was some sort of timing loop that Morris had
miscalculated and the spread rate was much faster than
he had expected and became unstoppable.
And back then pretty much everyone on the net was trusted.
- Bob
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