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In case anyone hasn't read it already and may be interested - this is the story of the Morris worm that leveraged a finger vuln in 1988: http://www.cs.unc.edu/
by mtkd 8y ago
In case anyone hasn't read it already and may be interested - this is the story of the Morris worm that leveraged a finger vuln in 1988:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-RTMworm-89.html http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/courses/nidsS05/attacks/seely-...
Robert T Morris is a YC partner now I understand.
- wolfgang42 8y agoFrom https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ : > Robert Morris is a professor of computer science at MIT... In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow [sic] first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public.