10 Oct
2019
10 Oct
'19
3:05 a.m.
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:09:42 -0700 Kurt H Maier <khm(a)sciops.net> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:59:43AM -1000, Rob Pike
wrote:
I feel more than slightly absurd asking this but is the
password ken used in 1980 is of "historical interest"?
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.
And not really relevant to this topic, in fact. It's not like we're
sitting around rainbow-tabling someone's Macbook. This stuff is, at
this point, of historical interest. "How many decades old must a hash
be before it's acceptable to decode it" is a valid question worth
answering, but comparing this kind of archaeology to active attack is
slightly absurd.