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Article #1837System reincarnation is bad security (was Performance & Diagnosis ...)
From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 20:17
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 20:17
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Robert D. Houk (rdh@sli.com) writes about an episode in which he
brought a timesharing system back from the dead by adroit manipulation
of the front-panel switches:
"No user lost any data (except terminal typein of course - not
a single typeout character was lost, no disk files lost or
corrupted, only a 3-minute pause in service was noticed)."
An operator once used a similar technique to bring back a KA-10 when I
was in school. Unfortunately, when we saw that terminal echo was gone,
we'd all left for dinner. The system came back, I was again logged in,
and some dweeb chose to demonstrate his power over me by deleting all
my files and leaving a nastygram.
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]
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