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Back when I was at university the x servers on our terminals were not secured, and other people could open output on your terminal. A favourite was a program t
by mr_toad 4y ago
Back when I was at university the x servers on our terminals were not secured, and other people could open output on your terminal. A favourite was a program that sent cockroaches scurrying around the screen whenever you moved a window.
- throwaway744678 4y agoHa, ha! Same here... The classical joke here was to send an xkill command: next mouse click will terminate whatever window was under the cursor.
- vidarh 4y agoMy university got a bunch of SGI Indy's for cheap as a marketing ploy by the importer, and everyone could log in to all the machines. It became a lot of peoples first experience of the privacy implications of webcams (they had them built in) and taught a lot of people the value of paying attention to the privacy covers.