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Re: Hey old people


From: "dudevanwinkle () gmail com" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:41:39 -0700

Tom Van Vleck wrote:

e.g. it was well known that one could disable the 7094 FMS supervisor's
job time limit counter and accounting by storing zero in a certain
location in core.  (No, I'm not going to say which one on an open 
channel.)
That was a vulnerability in a system with no memory protection where
only one job was running at a time, circa 1962.



Dang, no full disclosure after 43 years? Man thats harsh ;-)

-JP
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