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Subject: Re: Satan
From: Ryan Faussett <ryanpf @ oemsunix . onysd . wednet . edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 08:05:15 -0700 (PDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine . BSI . 3 . 91 . 960418083708 . 10689A-100000 @ wichita . fn . net>

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Rabid Wombat wrote:
> 
> > At least SATAN attacks are easily detected - a bigger problem is the more 
> > sophisticated newbie hacker wannabe sifting through the PERL code for an 
> > education.
> 
> 	How many "newbie hacker wannabe"s do you know of that would be 
> intelligent to understand perl code, let alone any real programming language?

I know of two 8th grade students that are becoming quite fluent in it, all 
learned off the web, from tutorials.  Im quite impressed with their 
learning rate and grasp of even the more complex aspects of perl.  I'd 
hate to see them with any heavy duty hacker scripts as i know they could 
pick them apart in a few weeks.


Ryan Faussett
UNIX Systems Administrator
Onalaska School District
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