[HN Gopher] Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis
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       Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-02-18 13:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org)
        
       | resonator wrote:
       | It's documented in Underground[1] that Spafford was the target of
       | some crackers, eager to get info on the latest security
       | vulrabilities; information that was difficult to obtain in the
       | 80s. They intended to break into his computer and take it.
       | 
       | It's a wonderful book all about the hacking scene of 80s and
       | early 90s. It covers a young Julian Assange, but that's not why
       | you should read it.
       | 
       | 1. https://underground-book.net/
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | For whatever it's worth, anybody with any connection to any
         | kind of vulnerability research was a target in the 1990s.
        
       | Turing_Machine wrote:
       | He was also a major figure in the development of Usenet, for
       | those who are old enough to remember when that was a Big Deal.
        
         | randomstring wrote:
         | "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
         | massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining,
         | and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you
         | least expect it. " -spaf
         | 
         | And some other famous quotes:
         | https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/quotes.html
        
       | KerrAvon wrote:
       | FYI, Spaf is on Mastodon as spaf@mstdn.social.
        
       | moremetadata wrote:
       | >For other areas of cybersecurity, you may need to study
       | psychology and management theory to better understand the people
       | involved,
       | 
       | Economics in particular planned obsolesce explains why the
       | cybersecurity industry exists.
        
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