full-disclosure - The worm author finally revealed!

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From: hlk at kramse.dk (Henrik Lund Kramshøj)
Subject: The worm author finally revealed!

On onsdag, jan 29, 2003, at 17:47 Europe/Copenhagen, 
solareclipse@...eedom.org wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:14:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Solar Eclipse <solareclipse@...eedom.org> 
>> [2003.01.29.0516 +0100]:
>>> I believe that the author of the worm is the infamous Kevin Mitnick.
>>> The timing cannot be a coincidence. Mitnick was let loose on the
>>> Internet on Jan 21 and four days later the Internet was brough down.
>>> It's obvious that he is the one responsible.
>>
>> You'll make a great investigator!
>>
>> This is FUD!
>
> It's a joke for God's sake, you were supposed to laugh. I'm amazed at 
> the
> number of people who took that seriousely.
>
> Solar
FWIW I thought it was funny, and it goes to show how many people mistake
Full Disclosure for the truth (tm)

I guess many people also thinks that having a PGP signature on mails
make them - true (while paranoid people would actually verify the 
signatures)

even IF the PGP signature verifies clean the content might be
fake, or a joke in this case

Trust is a funny thing, eh?

Best regards

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