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Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rslade () sprint ca>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:39:41 -0800
Date sent: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Some folks at Xerox PARC tried that in 1980, to disasterous results.
Their original paper ("The `Worm' Programs") is better.
Originally coined in a 1982 paper by researchers John Shoch and Jon Hupp of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, the term "worm" is derived from "The Shockwave Rider,"
Not quite. Shoch and Hupp defined their entity as a worm because it was distributed computing: a single package consisting of a bunch of segments (the segments running on various computers). "The Shockwave Rider" reference seems to be just for interest.
"The embarrassing results were left for all to see: 100 dead machines scattered about the building."
But, yes, the Xerox worm is definitely a salutary lesson for all those considering distributed computing of various types, and particularly the use of "good" viruses and worms. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () sun soci niu edu Americans are a broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive there's something wrong with him. - Art Buchwald http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms, (continued)
- RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Aditya Deshmukh (Oct 06)
- RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Dave Dittrich (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Florian Weimer (Oct 18)
- RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Aditya Deshmukh (Oct 18)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Eduardo Tongson (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Roland Dobbins (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Dave Dittrich (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Eduardo Tongson (Oct 06)
- Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Oct 07)