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>All information should be free, really? Like your root password? No, that sounds right. Didn't you hear about RMS's famous anti-password crusade when password
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>All information should be free, really? Like your root password?
No, that sounds right. Didn't you hear about RMS's famous anti-password crusade when passwords were added to ITS?
Also, ITS had no root, or even permissions: you could log in as any user and do anything. Except browse the directory where the ZORK sources were kept, after Blank et al. hacked in permissions for that directory (and even then, some DEC engineers patched the system to subvert it and grabbed a copy of the source, translating it to FORTRAN, and giving us DUNGEON. The Zork developers figured that if they went to that much effort, they deserved the source.
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- cousin_it 10y agoFair enough. Though even RMS argues today that real names and personal data of online users shouldn't be accessible to everyone.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI imagine that's a bit different. The ability to bend the system to your will, make the choices you need to make, and have it behave as you desire, regardless of what the people who were at the keyboard before you think, is empowering, and conducive to hacking. Having all personal data available to anyone in a mass database... not so much.