[comp.misc] The network needed that

utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) (11/08/88)

Lots of folks got cought with their sequrity pants down.  Im[D[DWhile
his actions were "less that responsible", in the men[Ddium run this
is probably a good thing.  Vires[D[Duses are[D[D[D(viri?) are not going away,
and perhaps some administraters[D[D[Dors will pay more attention to seq[Dcurity
for a while.  
  If you really wanted the network to be secure, you could have
one or more groups who's purpose is to detect and in some benign
and publicly embarrassing way exploit security loopholes accross[D[D[D[D[D[Dcross 
the network.  Of course, they should also be charce[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[Dhave the task of making
recommendations about closing those same loopholes.

   [DI don't expect to see this happen:-)
--Todd