I sent the following snippet of this conversation to my Linux guru, asking whether
Klez has any
significance for Linux users (this being interesting because this is, ostensibly, an
OS forum).
The recent outbreak of the Klez virus/worm has been very
significant. I know of people who have
Thanks to Philippe Aigrain for posting this on the
FreeSW list
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.htmlhttp://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/23/0320226mode=threadtid=109
Joseph
---J. Dal Molin
e-cology corporationwww.e-cology.ca
1.416.232.1206
The report on open source is credited to Mitre Corp. Mitre stands
for MIT Research, and it doesn't get any spookier than Mitre. I
would say that almost nothing Mitre does is not (double negative, I
know) heavily classified. My thought would be that the Pentagon is
very likely to follow
Gavin's paper, Brian's Picnic project, and Sam's Argus project
contain a large quantity of reading material. Large as in a 169 page
Word document for Picnic alone. I have not absorbed this material
yet :-)
During the absorption process, I would like to introduce another
punch line: this