kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) (11/14/88)
In article <161@loci.UUCP> clb@loci.UUCP (Charles Brunow) writes: > Use the time to write a monthly virus and announce > "THIS IS A TEST" and send it. We should vote on whether or not > to moderate it, of course, and then do it anyway. If you're > looking for analogies, how about Pasteur and his dead germs. Or RTM and his FBI/NSA blues.... > I can't see how a good defense for viruses can be developed > by people who have no first hand experience with them. We > really need to play around with these types of things if we > are to claim knowledge of effective defenses. Fine but lets not do it on the Internet. That sort of testing should be conducted in a closed network. > And I'd love > to see just how secure we really are, wouldn't you? I especially > like to see smug fat cats get theirs, you know the "head-in- > the-sand" defense which leaves their tail waving around in the > air. WE ? I don't see any internet address in your .signature. Have people forgotten why we have an Internet ? Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the misconception that its purpose was to increase the flow of technical communication between academics, research and industry. Granted, initially set up for government research uses, those uses have long since moved into more isolated and secure networks. >-- > CLBrunow - KA5SOF > clb@loci.uucp, loci@csccat.uucp, loci@killer.dallas.tx.us > Loci Products, POB 833846-131, Richardson, Texas 75083 It sure is nice of you to provide us with an internet address so we can test this month's comp.virus contributions with your machine as the target. I am sure that you are really having fun sitting on the sidelines trying to accomplish the subject header. I can hear you now: "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but viruses will never reeeeeach me..." ---- Kent Landfield Phone: (402) 291-8300 Sterling Software FSG/IMD e-mail: kent@ssbell 1404 Ft. Crook Rd. South No internet address here..... Bellevue, NE. 68005-2969 FAX: (402) 291-4362