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Re: Famous operational issues


From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:12:08 -0500

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 01:37:35PM -0600, John Kristoff wrote:
Which examples would make up your top three?

Morris worm, November 1988.  Much confusion and eventually the realization
the John Brunner had called it from 13 years out ("The Shockwave Rider", 1975).
But sloppy coding meant it could be defeated with one line of /bin/sh.

---rsk


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