Date   : Mon, 26 Nov 1990 06:12:03 GMT
From   : tsx-11.MIT.EDU!tytso@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Early microcomputer networks

In article <20@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Richard
Lynch) writes:
>In article <1990Nov20.201509.14205@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> 
>cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
>> We had an Apple ][ lab with a Corvus in elementary school; it was
>> installed when I was in sixth grade (1981).  The one thing I best
>> remember about it was how often it crashed, and how often we lost all
>> of our files.  I really hated the thing, I almost expected to lose my
>> files every time I went into the lab.  The year I graduated from 8th
>> grade they got a second Corvus (ack!).
>> 
The other neat thing about the Corvus was that the "Login program" would
read the login/password file into memory and leave it there after it logged 
you in.  Of course, the passwords were stored in the clear, so it was the
work of a moment to write a quick basic program to dump out all of the
accounts with their passwords. 

Security?  What's that?
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