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Comment by ButlerianJihad

2 months ago

Well, the brainchild of YC Founder Robert Morris, the Morris Worm, exploited a zero-day in fingerd, so yes, after 1988, fingerd was extremely important for network security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

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anonreplier  2 months ago

I'm not sure a hard copy would have particularly helped

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