Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unm-cvax!unmvax!lee From: lee@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.sa Subject: Re: Security Warning Message-ID: <472@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 16:52:39 EST Article-I.D.: unmvax.472 Posted: Sun Oct 28 16:52:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 01:19:17 EST References: <1454@qubix.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 12 > By submitting a suitable set of shell commands to net.news.maps > I can create untold havoc on all your systems. The recent rash > of McCartney's and Springsteen's that have appeared on the net, > not to mention kremvax, should demonstrate that I could easily > disguise the author of the havoc. Even switching to mod.maps.all > won't afford much increased security. I have posted an equivalent program to net.sources that does NOT have this security hole. -- --Lee (Ward) {ucbvax,convex,gatech,pur-ee}!unmvax!lee