[998] in Cypherpunks
Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stig)
Wed Jun 9 04:55:10 1993
From: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 01:43:18 PDT
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM> (on Jun 8, 4:54pm)
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>, peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: smb@research.att.com, Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>,
To quote: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
> "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity." Without support, I think CERT is merely being stupid.
> Someone else (maybe even a government employee) is being malicious. I
> do think cert is harming their effectiveness by doing this. My guess
> is that they never stopped to think that someone might use them in
> this way to shut down an "unpopular" ftp site.
>
Sounds like this thread is getting too soft on CERT:
For soda, the mail went to someone@soda....
For Julf's machine, it went to his NETWORK PROVIDER. (This is not a
courteous move, nor was it intended to be.)
Stig
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