Ken Thompson's Unix Password

Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by Aeolun on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:00PM (#21220907)

What the OP did is (in this case) irrelevant to what the asshole did. There were multiple ways he could have gone about dealing with the situation that did not involve fucking someone over, but he chose to do that instead.

I just cannot attribute something like that to altruism.

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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by CraneWorm on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:32AM (#21222768)

Listen, knowing only OP's side of the story it's easy to sympathize. Especially if he's a part of our inngroup of technical people.

Dismissing the whistle-blower as a "kid, that wanted to just fuck someone over" is hardly fair.

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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by Assadi on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:40AM (#21224225)

snitch

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Re:Ken Thompson's Unix Password by CraneWorm on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:32PM (#21227072)

I was wondering when this one would come up. "Snitches end up in ditches" mentality is at fault here.

You pretend that someone cracking everyone's password is not a problem that the organization should address or even know about.

We should not turn our gaze away. "This is not my problem" is simply not a correct response. Snowden knew that, and yet, some people call him a snitch and a traitor.

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