From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:05:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191009210513.B3660156E80B@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:09:42 -0700." <20191009200942.GA73878@wopr>
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:09:42 -0700 Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:59:43AM -1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> >
> > Interesting though it is, though, I find this hacking distasteful. It was
> > distasteful back when, and it still is. The attitudes around hackery have
> > changed; the position nowadays seems to be that the bad guys are doing it
> > so the good guys should be rewarded for doing it first. That's disingenuous
> > at best, and dangerous at worst.
> >
>
> And not really relevant to this topic, in fact. It's not like we're
> sitting around rainbow-tabling someone's Macbook. This stuff is, at
> this point, of historical interest. "How many decades old must a hash
> be before it's acceptable to decode it" is a valid question worth
> answering, but comparing this kind of archaeology to active attack is
> slightly absurd.
I feel more than slightly absurd asking this but is the
password ken used in 1980 is of "historical interest"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-09 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-08 18:38 Norman Wilson
2019-10-08 18:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:22 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 5:49 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 5:52 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 6:00 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 8:16 ` Andy Kosela
2019-10-09 8:53 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-09 9:16 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-10 6:31 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2019-10-09 19:59 ` Rob Pike
2019-10-09 20:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-09 21:05 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2019-10-09 21:09 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 21:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 22:05 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-09 23:28 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-11 12:28 ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-09 20:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-10 20:38 ` Nemo
2019-10-10 20:52 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-11 6:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-11 11:09 ` William Pechter
2019-10-11 23:46 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-12 0:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 8:21 ` Dan Cross
2019-10-10 11:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 12:07 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-18 14:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-18 15:01 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 15:05 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 18:32 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-19 13:11 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-10 13:57 ` Henry Bent
2019-10-10 14:05 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 16:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-10 14:10 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-11 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:15 ` Michael Kjörling
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-19 13:45 Norman Wilson
2019-10-19 20:27 ` ewe2
2019-10-19 20:41 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-03 18:51 Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 19:30 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-03 20:41 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 22:04 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-03 23:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 0:59 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2019-10-04 16:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-04 10:29 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-04 15:05 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-05 18:05 ` Tom Jones
2019-10-08 17:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 20:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 12:55 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 16:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-05 17:29 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-05 17:49 ` Arthur Krewat
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