It’s the twentieth anniversary of the ILOVEYOU virus, and here are three interesting articles about it and its effects on software design. Powered by WPeMatico
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Lots of them weren’t very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used “dmac” (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell command line interpreter, chose “bourne”; Eric Schmidt, an early developer of Unix software and now the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, relied on “wendy!!!” (the name … Read More “Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers” »
Really good article about the women who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, breaking German Enigma-encrypted messages. Powered by WPeMatico
New Atlas has a great three-part feature on the history of hacking as portrayed in films, including video clips. The 1980s. The 1990s. The 2000s. Powered by WPeMatico