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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:49:15 +1030

Re: ZDNet: New worm burrows into Aust systems

David Lloyd wrote:

> Don't worry--I'm just waiting for the first Linux based Internet killer.
> It's not something that might happen, it WILL happen at some stage...

Open source software (sendmail, BSD fingerd, BSD rsh/rexec) had
the first "Internet killer" worm, the Morris worm in 1988.

 > The more untrained, non-administrators using a system the more likely it's
 > going to be fun to compromise that system on a worldwide basis.

And yet the operating system most aimed at "untrained,
non-administrators", MacOS, doesn't have a bad record.

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  Glen Turner                (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936
  Australian Academic and Research Network   www.aarnet.edu.au

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