Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole

The Star Wars post is fascinating, and has triggered a lot of email in my inbox, but a slightly earlier and much more important post is my announcement of a security hole I found in UUCP software that permitted any command to be executed anywhere. I claim it's the first security hole announcement on Usenet.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole by Albannach (Monsignor) on Dec 13, 2001 at 23:15 UTC
Doubtless yours is one of the first, but I believe that this one not only came earlier, but appears to deal with the same or a similar flaw (it's hard to say as you wisely didn't detail your flaw publicly at the time). There are a few even earlier security hole announcements, but you're up there with the pioneers to be sure! -- I'd like to be able to assign to an luser	[reply]
Re: Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole by IlyaM (Parson) on Dec 13, 2001 at 22:19 UTC
Quite funny to see words 'computer mail' in that post. I've not seen it before. I wonder how long exist word 'email'. -- Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)	[reply]
Re: Re: Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 13, 2001 at 23:02 UTC
Or for that matter, how long before the improper pluralization resulted in (gag) "emails". Bleh. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re (tilly) 2: Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 15, 2001 at 10:57 UTC
I don't know how long email has existed as a word, but I know when I started to use it. It was in 1997 after I read what Knuth had to say on the subject of email. (At that point it was decidedly odd to see email instead of e-mail.)	[reply]
Re: Google shows my 1982 post on first remotely exploitable security hole by TomK32 (Monk) on Dec 13, 2001 at 22:10 UTC
Damn, this post is 18 days older than me. I've missed soo much :-( `-- package Lizard::King; sub can { do { 'anything'} };` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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