From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 20:42:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2DC216A4CF for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:42:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0C243D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:42:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andyh@hhbb.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (213-208-104-83.dyn.gotadsl.co.uk [213.208.104.83]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E813255318; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:42:04 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <20040706103657.GA489@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20040705162320.11141.qmail@web51604.mail.yahoo.com> <40E99786.5000005@gmx.de> <20040705210817.GB4560@gothmog.gr> <20040706094303.GA9617@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040706103657.GA489@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <22950A70-D056-11D8-B733-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andy Holyer Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:42:17 +0100 To: Erik Trulsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Phil Schulz cc: Mark Jayson Alvarez Subject: Re: A few simple questions(...if you don't mind) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:42:13 -0000 On 6 Jul 2004, at 11:36, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > If you go back a bit further in time there was the Great Worm of 1988, > which targeted VAX and Sun3 systems running BSD code, and which > actually did bring down most of the Internet at the time. That was the > incident that got people in the Unix community to start thinking > seriously > about security. > Then again, I survived that. My Unix box was running Coloured Book, so the worm didn't see us. There was one really horrible telnetd exploit which the script kiddies got hold of which let them in as root. Trashed a server I had at the time in the midwest. The only way I survived was that they did it on September 10th 2001, so the client had other things to think about soon after.... --- Andy Holyer, Technical stuff Hedgehog Broadband, 11 Marlborough Place Brighton BN1 1UB 08451 260895 x 241