[113663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Apr 17 21:28:48 2009
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:28:14 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4b6ee9310904171754o46a691e7y666fe99eda2de4a5@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
andrew.wallace wrote:
> I want this individual made an example of and im not joking.
>
And I'd like an example made of companies that ignore reports of
security flaws and leave their customers open to such worms; not to
mention giving the impression to misguided teenagers that the only way
they will be heard is to release a worm.
Historically, I believe some companies have ignored security concerns
until someone (sometimes non-maliciously) released a worm. Of course,
even non-malicious worms can have unpredictable results which result in
catastrophic behavior. The earliest examples predate my residence on the
network, but I've read a small bug made them extremely bad.
Jack
