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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.113810.24146@twwells.com>
Date: 2 Oct 89 11:38:10 GMT
References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <7916@microsoft.UUCP> <6375@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <6375@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
: > >Had a look in comp.virus recently?
:
: > seen any good internet viruses lately?
:
: That's a red herring. The internet is deliberately designed as a low- or no-
: security environment. And for all that it's more secure than any PC net.
: I'm on the security mailing list, and have yet to see a System-V related
: problem show up.

Really?

What about the one that lets any user trivially truncate the password
file? And lets the real clever get root access?

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