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Re: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Aug 4 13:10:56 2015

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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:06:58 +0700
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On 4 Aug 2015, at 23:21, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> and letting people keep poking at things that computers should be 
> doing is... much worse. people do not have reliability and 
> repeat-ability over time.

I've personally never come across an accidental route hijack (of the 
subset of which I learned the actual details of what happened) that 
wasn't the result of someone manually typing at the enable prompt.

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