RE: [Asrg] Zombie spam

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

Core wars...

Of course in those days there was absolutely no chance of a serious virus
problem, there being only a few computers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:asrg-bounces at ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Seth Breidbart
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:30 PM
> To: asrg at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] Zombie spam
> 
> 
> der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
> 
> >>> In contrast, Unix people have *always* worked with a larger, more
> >>> hostile net.  They *knew* that malicious people were out 
> there, and
> >>> wrote their programs accordingly.
> >> Well, not quite *always*.  Prior to around 1972 the net was safe.
> >
> > A good deal later than that, even.  I first got involved with such
> > things around 1980, and I remember a machine which was advertised as
> > having no password on root - want an account? log in and create
> > yourself one.  (I think it was one of the FSF machines, but 
> that part
> > of the memory is pretty fuzzy.)
> 
> ITS was like that.
> 
> 1972 was when Harv-10 had to be modified so that in order to become
> superuser (whatever it was called on TOPS-10), your user id had to be
> physically entered into the console switches.  That was to slow down
> some cracker from MIT.
> 
> Everything coming from outside was also logged onto a Teletype Model
> 33, on the grounds that no matter how good someone is, he still can't
> do a remote erase of files from that device.
> 
> Seth
> 
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