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UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

Oct 11, 2019 by iHash Leave a Comment

A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers.In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted an interesting "/etc/passwd" file in a publicly available source tree of … [Read more...] about UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

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UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked