Re: [Asrg] Zombie spam

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On July 23, 2004 at 15:17 mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse) wrote:
 > 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.)

1980 is too early for FSF but it was probably either MIT-AI or MIT-MC
which ran ITS. You could create an acct at the "login prompt" (or
their equivalent which as I remember was just ":"), it wasn't obvious
how but cheat sheets abounded. You immediately had to email the
accounts alias and say the right magic (like who is "sponsoring" your
acct, a faculty name was a good answer) or it'd probably disappear in
a few hours.

The machines were certainly connected to the ARPAnet.

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