13 Mar
2017
13 Mar
'17
7:59 a.m.
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
I used to have an undocumented mail service on my
workstation at Sun. I
could send mail with a subject line specifying what I wanted and it sent
it to me. Mainly used it when I was teaching at Stanford and I wanted
to grab stuff but couldn't get into Sun's network from the outside. In
fact, just found the script, it only worked if I was coming from
lm(a)CS.Stanford.EDU or lm(a)Sunburn.Stanford.EDU so I must have been
worried about security.
Giggle... Back when I was working for GEAC, I happened to find an outside
line that they had forgotten was there, and me being a Unixoid and wanting
to avoid their poxy M$ firewall, I used it for email etc.
The IT bod understood, and it wasn't closed until after I left.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."