vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Sat Jun 5 14:24:28 2004

It was thus said that the Great William Donzelli once stated:
>
> > I think you don't recall correctly, or perhaps you never heard of the
> > Morris worm. It's been a while since I read up on it, but I'm fairly
> > sure one of its spreading mechanisms involved a VAX machine-language
> > grappling hook.
>
> I would think the reason that the older machines do not have worms and
> virus (generally) is that ciding them back then was simply not
> in style. 20 years ago, if a worm was released for VMS, would it make the
> news? Would anyone outside of a few thousand sysadmins really care? What
> glory would there be for the hacker? Not much...

  The Morris worm was 16 years ago, and it *did* make the national news here
in the US (I remember my Mom mentioning it), and it *only* affected about
10% of the Internet at the time.

  -spc (I don't recall if the university I attended at the time was hit
        with it or not ... )
Received on Sat Jun 05 2004 - 14:24:28 BST