1993-10-08 - Re: that internet security scanner

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From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <9310080607.AA26069@netcom5.netcom.com>
Reply To: <mech@eff.org>
UTC Datetime: 1993-10-08 06:09:22 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 23:09:22 PDT

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From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 23:09:22 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: that internet security scanner
In-Reply-To: <mech@eff.org>
Message-ID: <9310080607.AA26069@netcom5.netcom.com>
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Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> said:
>anyone actually seen that thing? (to refresh: CERT posted some warning
>about a security scanner for Internet systems that might be the evil work
>of themthere hackers so you just better delete it, etc etc.)  

(A) The "evil" in question was posted to comp.sources.misc (or some other
similarly obvious group). (B) The advisory was about as neutral as such
a thing can be.

Further comment fails me.
        Doug





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