Asri-unix.961 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!lauren@RAND-UNIX Wed Mar 10 19:37:47 1982 Unix security flaw on front page of L.A. Times Sometime back, mention was made of a serious (but hardly unknown) security flaw (first noticed in Unix but clearly applicable to many other systems) relating to modern timesharing systems and their associated terminals. This original mention was here in UNIX-WIZARDS. Today's L.A. Times gives it front page coverage, calling the "flaw" the most serious computer security issue since the invention of computers!?! The article quoted an SRI researcher and used one of the Berkeley systems for an example. It also made a big deal about how many government agencies, etc. used Unix (which is attributed to DEC, by the way, as I recall!) Anyway, thought yo'all would be amused. --Lauren-- P.S. I certainly am not going to discuss the "flaw" in detail, except to say that it isn't really a "flaw", but is more of a complex interaction problem relating to modern systems and their user hardware. --LW-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.