CONCEPT
UUCP
UUCP
- UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols that allowed computers to transmit files and execute remote commands over dial-up telephone lines and point-to-point serial links.
- UUCP served as the primary transport backbone for early store-and-forward networks including Usenet and worldwide Unix email routing throughout the 1980s.
- In 1982, while working at Tektronix (a major Pacific Northwest UUCP routing hub), I discovered a critical remote execution vulnerability in
uuxand coordinated the fix directly with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. See Finding the UUX Vulnerability and Emailing Dennis Ritchie.
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