(RM Jr of worm fame was just a kid then.)
AFAIK the only group to discover Ken’s hack was us in PWB/UNIX. One of the other guys noticed C prepreprocessor had gotten bigger, looked at binary namelist, found symbol not in source code. I got onto Ken’s system, found the code, very clever.
(RM Jr of worm fame was just a kid then.)
More chortling, then (must have been Bob): uhh, NSA really doesn’t have sense of humor.
We did audit, agreed with that, BUT:
1) Many terminals had yellow stickies with root password.
2) They’d reused unused lab space w/o adequate HVAC, room got hot, so they often left door open.
As usual, good tech helps, but human error/laziness must always be guarded against.
Same thing happened later with workstations & then PCs: user depts got impatient with central IT.
Just as happened later with workstations/PCs, BTL Directors found that running own computer center well was a pain. The main computer centers then offered to do facilities management, with good HVAC,
I recall centralized mainframe service bureaus of 1960s,reborrn as cloud🙂
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