There was an interesting discussion in 2019 after a group of people started cracking the passwords of the original Unix developers that had been obtained from a

There was an interesting discussion in 2019 after a group of people started cracking the passwords of the original Unix developers that had been obtained from an old /etc/passwd file in this repo (https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-3-Snapshot-Development/etc/passwd https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-3-S...). Rob Pike spoke out against the effort, calling it “distasteful.” https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/CAKzdPgw0Vz8UFbK7c_Jr+RHGMssSxN=t8W36J0FMTPt5w+wkgA@mail.gmail.com/ https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/CAKzdPgw0Vz8UFbK7c_Jr+RHGMssSxN=... Nonetheless, in the end every password was cracked. Some highlights: Steve Bourne: “bourne” Dennis Ritchie: “dmac” Kirk McKusick: “foobar” Brian Kernighan: “/.,/.,” Ken Thompson: “p/q2-q4!” (a chess move) Bill Joy: cracked but not posted due to Rob Pike’s comments, but it contained a control character