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Re:On VBScript by pjmlp on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:10AM (#18724975)
Security only works properly when applied to all layers.

It is very educative to read about security models on Multitics, ClearPath, System 360/370, OS/400 among many other similar systems, their attack vectors, and what we ended up getting by having winner takes it all with UNIX based systems.

This year we celebrated 30 years of Morris worm.

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Re:On VBScript by watersb on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:34PM (#18730822)
> This year we celebrated 30 years of Morris worm.

Wow. That was one hell of a night. Melted down our university computer labs, packed with desperate undergrads trying to complete and turn in their projects before midnight deadline...

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Re:On VBScript by fujimotos on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:44AM (#18740529)
> Melted down our university computer labs

How did admins manage to disinfect servers? It should have been a hell of fun for them, provided it was the first pandemic ever.

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Re:On VBScript by watersb on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:47PM (#18765566)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302924

Hard reboot with email server disabled.

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