Mills@UDEL.EDU (11/05/88)
Folks, Several years ago when the Internet was but a wee tot I happened a booboo in my GGP implementation which resulted in a severely retarded routing update sent to a gateway of what became the BBN core gateways system. The update caused the gateway to crash, but not before replicating the update sent to all of its neighbors, which promptly redistributed it and crashed as well. This of course was a worm, although I can't say whether I, John Shoch or John Brunner can claim the First Worm Award. To cover my embarassment, I noticed in the world news that a company of mercenaries, later found to be in the pay of South Africa, had just invaded Madagascar, but were repulsed. I therefore caused my boo to become known as the Great Commando Raid to put the best spin I could on it and all my dear friends seemed to have forgiven me. The legend is sometimes whispered as a lesson to aspiring undergrad programmers. Comes now the Worm of 88, which will surely become known to the worldwide community. Now, I see in the news that India has sent mercenaries to the Maldives, sleepy little islands in the same sea as Madagascar, itself a largish island. I don't mind telling you the coincidence is unsettling, perhaps less so because the mercs seem to have been successful in thier raid. Dave
bzs@pinocchio.UUCP (Barry Shein) (11/08/88)
Speaking of dates, Nov 3, 1988 (The Day of the Loud Worm) is also, according to the Mt Xinu calendar, the 5th anniversary of the 4.2BSD release. -Barry Shein, ||Encore||
kumar@hpindda.HP.COM (Krishna Kumar) (11/08/88)
Just a technical point, Dave -- India sent troops (on the request of the govt. of the Maldives) to fight the mercenaries who wanted to overthrow the government of the Maldives. And, as far as I know, the mercs were successful only in capturing a radio station, and the troops otherwise succeeded in quelling the coup attempt. Regards, krishna kumar, Business Networks, HP. Disclaimer: These views are mine and not HP's, etc. etc...
Mills@UDEL.EDU (11/08/88)
Folks, My apologies to Dheeraj and others who quickly pointed out my error, which resulted from reading a local paper early in the incident. I and/or the paper got it backwards. No political or motivational comment was intended other than the spooky coincidence, which still stands. Dave ----- Forwarded message # 1: Received: from louie.udel.edu by Huey.UDEL.EDU id aa29470; 8 Nov 88 10:53 EST Received: from mimsy.umd.edu by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa04602; 8 Nov 88 10:46 EST Received: from chakra.cs.umd.edu by mimsy.umd.edu (5.58/4.7) id AA27540; Tue, 8 Nov 88 10:45:24 EST Received: by chakra.cs.umd.edu (5.58/3.14) id AA24942; Tue, 8 Nov 88 10:47:17 EST Date: Tue, 8 Nov 88 10:47:17 EST From: Dheeraj Sanghi <dheeraj@chakra.cs.umd.edu> Return-Path: <dheeraj@chakra.cs.umd.edu> Message-Id: <8811081547.AA24942@chakra.cs.umd.edu> To: Mills@UDEL.EDU Subject: Re: Deja vu wormus Cc: dheeraj@tove.umd.edu > Now, I see in the news that India has sent mercenaries to the > Maldives, sleepy little islands in the same sea as Madagascar, > itself a largish island. > Dave Hi, It is not correct that India has sent mercenaries to the Maldives. The mercenaries were from Sri Lanka, hired by a politician in Maldives. India interfered on the request of Maldives government and forced the mercenaries to flee. -dheeraj Dheeraj Sanghi (301)-454-1516 (off) Systems Design & Analysis Group (301)-345-6024 (home) Dept of CS, U of MD., College Pk. MD -20742 dheeraj@tove.umd.edu ----- End of forwarded messages