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I listened to this as an audiobook last year. The thing that struck me was how weak security was (which this article points out) such as hooking up systems to t
by drivers99 4y ago
I listened to this as an audiobook last year. The thing that struck me was how weak security was (which this article points out) such as hooking up systems to the open networks with default passwords still set up. And exploiting emacs being one of the ways they’d escalate privileges. Here’s an excerpt I found talking about that.
https://faculty.kutztown.edu/rieksts/111-F13/lectures/egg.html https://faculty.kutztown.edu/rieksts/111-F13/lectures/egg.ht...
- Accujack 4y agoIt was a more innocent time.
- CliffStoll 4y agoto say the least: Vax/VMS systems came with default name/pw of SYSADM/SYSADM. Guest logins without passwords were commonplace on Unix systems. This was way back when computing - and the Arpanet - were considered playgrounds for academics. Long way back!