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Article #366Re: Re: Early microcomputer networks
From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1990 06:12
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1990 06:12
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In article <20@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch) writes: >In article <1990Nov20.201509.14205@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> >cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes: >> We had an Apple ][ lab with a Corvus in elementary school; it was >> installed when I was in sixth grade (1981). The one thing I best >> remember about it was how often it crashed, and how often we lost all >> of our files. I really hated the thing, I almost expected to lose my >> files every time I went into the lab. The year I graduated from 8th >> grade they got a second Corvus (ack!). >> The other neat thing about the Corvus was that the "Login program" would read the login/password file into memory and leave it there after it logged you in. Of course, the passwords were stored in the clear, so it was the work of a moment to write a quick basic program to dump out all of the accounts with their passwords. Security? What's that? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore Ts'o bloom-beacon!mit-athena!tytso 3 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 tytso@athena.mit.edu Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!tsx-11.MIT.EDU!tytso From: tytso@tsx-11.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.os.cpm,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Re: Early microcomputer networks Message-ID: <1990Nov26.061203.17589@athena.mit.edu> Date: 26 Nov 90 06:12:03 GMT References: <1990Nov13.210141.28709@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <199 <20@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 21