Re: Purging Blaster.worm

From: Ken Jacobs <kenneth_jacobs(at)msn.com>
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 13:48:39 EDT

What's scariest about all this?

Back in the late 70's, early 80's, a science fiction writer wrote a novel that envisioned scenarios much like we see today. Much of the terminology he used then is in common use today, as are many of the concepts. He wrote of a network comparable to today's internet (or maybe that of the not so distant future), a variety of worms (and the idea of worms that eat other worms). The recent flap over the DARPA 'terrorist futures'? He mentioned a 'delphic lottery' - the idea that if enough people bet on potential futures (similar to the stock market), they'd actually accurately predict future events.

And all this back before Robert Morris' infamous worm.. (talk of ancient hsitory)

>From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
>To: Stuart <secmail@patchsupplier.dyndns.org>
>CC: security-basics@securityfocus.com
>Subject: Re: Purging Blaster.worm
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:32:04 -0400
>
>Yes, it is possible. No, it is not legal to do so.

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Received on Fri Aug 15 17:06:40 2003