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Re: 18th anniversary of Internet worm a.k.a. Morris worm


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:54:37 -0500

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:48:08 EST, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu said:

The fact that it took until 6PM *Thursday* evening for *any* of the security
people working on this (and rest assured, *every* security person on the Net

Damn editing oversight.  "for *any* of the security" should be "for *almost
any*".  Apparently all of a half dozen people figured it out in the first
12 hours, but their mails announcing the fact got delayed.  The first
real wave of light bulbs wasn't until about 36 hours in though, and most
people didn't understand it till "Microscope and Tweezers" got released.

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