<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Don Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfm2@cmu.edu" target="_blank">dfm2@cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class=""><div><font face="courier new, monospace">On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Ken Tilton <<a href="mailto:kentilton@gmail.com" target="_blank">kentilton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">> To be honest, I think it would be a wonderful testament to the proud</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">> morbidity of Lisp if we made the admin password public, put it in</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">> the FAQ, and published it every month, and no one ever used it.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div></span><div><font face="courier new, monospace">There’s precedent in the MACLISP branch of Common Lisp’s family tree. Anyone could login, or run without logging in, from anywhere in the country over the ARPAnet, to the various ITS machines, using whatever lusername they liked, without a password. And anyone could edit any file on the machine, watch what anyone else was doing, and bring the machine down.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for the wonderful history. I was immediately reminded of the Garden of Eden, a time of innocence before we ate from the tree of good and evil.</div><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">-hk</div><br></div>
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