It wasn't just the '80s. Things persisted into the mid '90s as well. - Pirate FTP sites were in plain sight with folders named with unprintable ASCII charac

It wasn't just the '80s. Things persisted into the mid '90s as well. - Pirate FTP sites were in plain sight with folders named with unprintable ASCII characters - My college-provided Telnet client for Windows included a backdoor FTP server with a plaintext user name and easily brute-forced password (unsalted hash that turned out to be a birthday of a school admin) - Admins had to resolve our network issues by connecting to network via modem, from our computers. Of course terminal program had keylogging enabled... - Open SMTP relay was widespread and everywhere. Spoofing and forging was as easy as a little Telnet and HELO