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From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu>
To: phage
X-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu, steve@umiacs.UMD.EDU, phage
Subject: NNTP vulnerability, and Re: Disassembled virus?
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 88 16:02:56 -0500
X-Date: Sat 16:02:56 05/11/1988 EST

no list is secure, especially in the presence of broken mailers.
If you believe otherwise then you don't read mailer-daemon mail.

Postel has called for a Virus RFC.  I think that's a fine idea.
I would like to see a copy of the virus myself, since there are
a lot of infectable machines on this campus that weren't hit
for one reason or another, and more machines coming on line
every day.

If we want a secure meeting, I would argue that the only way
to do it is in person.  Perhaps the internet engineering task
force is the appropriate body to figure out a meeting time and
place and invite people to come.

I am concerned that the next attack will hit the usenet news
network - there are a lot of machines running NNTP in the world.
Are there any known NNTP security holes, and how can I stop them up?

--Ed