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Article #980Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any??
From: William Unruh
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:25
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:25
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dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes: >In article <1993Jan23.202734.3921@nic.csu.net> oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu writes: >>Actually, I think the system should come as it comes. If a computer was to >>come with high security, the same computer-iliterate sysadmin would hardly >>ever bother to open it. Niether would (s)he ever figure out how to export Actually, I think they should get rid of all this password and permissions junk. That way the sysadmins will have to write their own and then they will really understand what security means. Perhaps we should even persuade the vendors not to sell operating systems. After all how many sysadmins really understand kernel calls now., or how a good device driver works.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!unruh From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Unix Viruses. Are there any?? Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:25:23 GMT Organization: The University of British Columbia Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k4373INNktc@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <9302314.5488@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1jrgcdINNgm9@cronkite.cisco.com> <1993Jan23.202734.3921@nic.csu.net> <1993Jan26.051333.2338@d-and-d.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca