20 Oct
2019
20 Oct
'19
2:27 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 09:45:30AM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
I'm amused (in a good way) that this thread
persists, and
without becoming boring.
Speaking as someone who was Ken's sysadmin for six years,
I find it hard to get upset over someone cracking a password
hash that has been out in the open for decades, using an
algorithm that became pragmatically unsafe slightly fewer
decades ago. It really shouldn't be in use anywhere any
more anyway. Were I still Ken's sysadmin I'd have leaned
on him to change it long ago.
I have a disk from one of Melbourne Uni's old Alpha servers from back in the
1990's and the passwd file is a who's who of staff, but I could only crack 3
of the student's passwords. The system is interesting in other ways, it's a
snapshot of the old oz.au network.
--
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise as they fly by.