Emacs was the central exploit that "Jagger" used to gain root access once he got his way on a box. It's a fantastic book, with good lessons in there that still ring true, such as keeping a log, documenting what you did and why, not emailing passwords and running a honeypot. It also showed that if you weren't in the clique you didn't get source access and that finding even part of it was a big deal. It's a shame his next book, silicone snake oil missed the mark by so much. On February 27, 2017 12:05:19 AM GMT+08:00, Nemo wrote: >On 26 February 2017 at 07:46, Michael Kjörling >wrote: >> On 26 Feb 2017 07:39 -0500, from jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel >Chiappa): >>> I was never happy with the size of EMACS, and it had nothing to do >with the >>> amount of memory resources used. That big a binary implies a very >large amount >>> of source, and the more lines of code, the more places for bugs... >> >> But remember; without Emacs, we might never have had _The Cuckoo's >> Egg_. Imagine the terror of that loss. > >Hhhmmm.... I must dig my copy out of storage because I do not remember >emacs in there. > >As for emac uses, my wife was on (non-CS) staff at a local college >affiliated with U of T. At the time, DOS boxes sat on staff desks and >email was via a telnet connection to an SGI box somewhere on campus. >A BATch file connected and ran pine but shelled out to an external >editor. What was the editor? Well, I saw her composing a message >once and ending the editor session by ^X^C. > >N. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: