[55582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Feb 2 17:29:36 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:28:58 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <OFDEB694D1.26DC1EE2-ON80256CBE.0042DB9E-80256CBE.0042FC0C@radianz.c
om>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com writes:
>
>> PS: Worm? Virus? Who wrote this up concisely first?
>
>Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
No -- "When Harlie was One", by David Gerrold. It was published in
1972; "Shockwave Rider" was from 1975. (Source: catalog.loc.gov)
Gerrold, btw, called it a virus that spread via autodialers (well, this
was 1972). He also described a "vaccine" program.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
