peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (11/10/88)
In article <11226@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel) writes: > In article <76424@sun.uucp> dre%ember@Sun.COM (David Emberson) writes: > >[Matt Bishop (now at Dartmouth)] wrote a paper detailing at least a half > >dozen holes in the Unix system... UNIX in general or things like sendmail that are specific to BSD? > "Congratulations! You just > bought a fine copy of Unix. Don't keep any files you care about on it." [ because we're not going to fix any security holes ] You see, this is the sort of response we're going to get from this sort of confusion. UNIX is not just BSD. The latest release of System V has many security improvements... some of which were apparently made at the urging of Robert Morris himself. Another consideration. Most of the individuals who buy computers run MS-DOS, a file manager and program loader that doesn't begin to try to keep viruses out. It can't, for obvious reasons. For all its faults, UNIX is a lot more secure than the alternatives available to the general public. The typical virus in an unprotected DOS or OS is at most a few K of code... many only a few hundred bytes. This worm required a leader that was nearly a hundred lines of 'C' code by itself. Let's keep a sense of proportion. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Ferranti International Controls Corporation "Have you hugged U your wolf today?" uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn business. peter@ficc.uu.net
libes@cme-durer.ARPA (Don Libes) (11/13/88)
In article <11226@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel) writes: > "Congratulations! You just > bought a fine copy of Unix. Don't keep any files you care about on it." I already see messages like that. Whenever I run gnuemacs, I get: GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details. Sounds similar if not as overt. In any case, I'm not the least surprised when gnuemacs trashes my files/buffers. (Same for UNIX.) Don Libes libes@cme.nbs.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes
beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie) (11/14/88)
In article <720@muffin.cme-durer.ARPA> libes@cme.nbs.gov (Don Libes) writes:
/ I'm not the least
/surprised when gnuemacs trashes my files/buffers. (Same for UNIX.)
/
/Don Libes libes@cme.nbs.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes
I'm not the least surprised when the hammer smashes my thumb.
Think about it.
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