[PLUG] Dealing with security

[mike]

TCP or serial doesn't matter.  the fact that multiple users had access 
makes it multi user/networked.  If one had a terminal one was trying to 
hack something.  Ask Richard Stallman.  Remember when they passworded 
his logins and he hacked his way around that?


Microsoft was made for a single user.  And even the users often  hack 
their own machines to death.


Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> I'm not that ancient yet and even some 20 years ago I didn't see Unix 
> systems in a networked environment that much. We mostly had 1200 bps 
> serial connections to dumb terminals. Most of the Unix systems I used 
> didn't even have ethernet and so we copied files and executed programs 
> remotely between systems using UUCP with a modem. In some cases if the 
> system's were in the same room we'd make our own NULL modem cables to 
> connect the systems together. 
> 
> Anyone have a good history of Unix reference? I thought TCP/IP 
> networking didn't show up in Unix until BSD 4.x in the early 80s. 
> Certainly the work that went on through DARPA that led to TCP/IP goes 
> way back though. I have an old "BSD 4.3 Unix" textbook and that's about 
> the only reference I see to networking in the "History of Unix" 
> chapter.
> 
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Michael H. Collins

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