27 Feb
2017
27 Feb
'17
7:19 a.m.
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 <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 February 2017 at 07:46, Michael Kjörling
<michael(a)kjorling.se>
wrote:
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.
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On 26 Feb 2017 07:39 -0500, from
jnc(a)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.