12 Oct
2019
12 Oct
'19
5:46 a.m.
(my apologies, I sent this the other day assuming it would
be sent to the list, but instead it got sent directly to
rob pike! oops!)
I agree, but I do believe that the time itself is a mitigating
factor.
To me this is much more akin to replicating a key for a lock
that is no longer used, than anything else. It really doesn't
serve much more purpose than pure curiosity and is of historical
interest at best.
On a (slightly?) related note, it's very, very surprising to me
that this has hit news outlets. I never considered that this
would get much more than a handful of replies, let alone this
much interest.
--
- Finn
"Enough too is much not!"
On 2019-10-09 19:59, Rob Pike wrote:
I coulda told you that. One tends to learn passwords
(inadvertently)
when they're short and typed nearby often enough. (Sorry, ken.)
If I remember right, the first half of this password was on a t-shirt
commemorating Belle's first half-move, although its notation may have
been different.
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.
-rob