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That world did exist. In the 1980s my password to the campus timeshare unix system was ]]. The system required at least two characters, and these were the clo
by mturmon 16y ago
That world did exist. In the 1980s my password to the campus timeshare unix system was ]]. The system required at least two characters, and these were the closest to the return key.
Many people's passwords were known. I trusted nobody to rm everything, and nobody ever did.
The internet changed that.
- mhw 16y agoThe internet changed that, eventually. I'm the mid-90s I worked at a UK university computer science department. At the time there were no firewalls around the departmental network and pretty much every machine, from the Sun and SGI workstations through to the multi-CPU servers, were directly connected to the Internet. We used NFS, rlogin and co. to transfer files and connect to different machines. I can remember logging into machines remotely from home using a modem, an ISP and passwords-in-the-clear. There was no regime I was aware of to apply software patches to machines. Looking back, I can't believe how much of a trusting place the internet was back then.