[13629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Potentially dangerous Pentium bug disc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schiffrin)
Wed Nov 12 14:17:38 1997
From: David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>
To: lseto@mhgc.lbl.gov (Leo Seto)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:06:56 -0800 (PST)
Cc: randy@psg.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971112100507.8527B-100000@quince> from "Leo Seto" at Nov 12, 97 10:08:53 am
Leo,
Those machines should be prevented from running arbitrary code.
You don't have untrusted folks logging in do you ?
You don't log in without ssh do you?
You don't run untrusted, unneeded network listeners on those machines do you?
If you do these things yes, you should be shot.
David Schiffrin
System Administrator
American Digital Network
daves@adnc.net
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
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> > can this 'discussion' please be moved to ms-dos-weenies or something?
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> > randy
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> But what about people using pentiums in unix-based gateways that run BGP?
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> And don't tell me they should be shot either.
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> Leo Seto
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