[TUHS] Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman

Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Jul 23 02:12:01 AEST 2023


On 22 Jul 2023, at 17:25, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> having already forgotten the lessons of the early v5 deployments exposing unix to lots of bored college students that needed to do something and quickly found holes in unix's protections.. 

As a curious young lad I was very pleased that the concept of a “secure” tty wasn’t around when I “bruteforced” my first root password over my father’s TYY.

Arrigo 
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