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Re: [Asrg] Zombie spam



>> In contrast, Unix people have *always* worked with a larger, more
>> hostile net.  They *knew* that malicious people were out there, and
>> wrote their programs accordingly.
> Well, not quite *always*.  Prior to around 1972 the net was safe.

A good deal later than that, even.  I first got involved with such
things around 1980, and I remember a machine which was advertised as
having no password on root - want an account? log in and create
yourself one.  (I think it was one of the FSF machines, but that part
of the memory is pretty fuzzy.)

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