Brandon S. Allbery (mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery@ames.arc.nasa.gov)
20 Nov 88 18:05:57 GMT
As quoted from <13059@princeton.Princeton.EDU> by > by alb@olden.uucp (Adam L. Buchsbaum):
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| In article <8597@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
| >It would be so nice if someone would undertake a security audit to
| >insure that work other college students did, which *is* currently
| >in production, doesn't contain any surprizes.
|
| Being just an ignorant graduate student myself, I can't figure out
| whether this implies that all college students are suspect, anyone who
| is not in college is not suspect, or both? Perhaps John F. Haugh II
| could clarify this for me?
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You misunderstand; he's not talking about RTMorris, he's talking about the
kind of peoplke who wrote sendmail, and fingerd, and other programs that
might have inadvertent security holes in them. And we've *all* done it at
one time or another. An independent audit of "important" code is a good
idea.
++Brandon
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