-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- security curmudgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So two things here; first, this was BBS not the FTP protocol and second, this wasn't an "appliance" handling the scanning, like the TM patent says. Again, having a second machine do it instead of the actual server is hardly novel or new. In fact, one could argue that on the larger BBS of the early 90's, they *did* have multiple machines working together, and one would handle the file uploads, scan the files, etc, before passing it to another to be hosted for download. > Changing gears here... Oddly enough, I used to participate in the Fido Virus discussion groups in the late 80's -- which is how I managed to eventually meet Dr. Solly, Vess, Sarah Gordon, Ross, Aryeh, Dmitry, etc. at various various conferences and other sundry functions. In those days, it was either a UUCP account to gateway to BITNET (e.g. for RISKS and other ACM forums) or Fido gateway for real discussion with the grassroots. Yes, I used to a lot of BBS'ing. My career took my in a different direction over the course of the subsequent years, but apparently things have a tendency to reconverge, as the case may be. Ah, good times. ;-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHoWwBq1pz9mNUZTMRAlASAKCPzjCmsCNMvRsD5KjnJ/nizGu+qACcCJ6F IM7ra5kaxQ7G7iYBi507mXQ= =xQ8u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
