On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:05:19PM -0500, Adam Maloney wrote: >You should see the nasty thread that popped up on NANOG about it - every >time someone does this there's a huge fight about whether it's good or >bad. It's always ugly, and usually only dies out when Godwin is invoked. "The next person that says anything about writing a good worm in my presence had better have insurance. Len, I love you, you're a great guy, but this worm is not "benevolent" -- it's just a piece of crap, and very poorly thought out at that." --nanog-list This sums up my personal view fairly well. I would also add that that any software that opens (especially privileged tcp) ports on my computer without my consent is also not "benevolent". -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030819/e0127d3e/attachment.pgp