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Re:The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017) by foobarian on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:14AM (#21913111)
This happened with networked OSes too. There was a time when Ethernet jacks were trusted unconditionally and hosts could be authenticated by their IP address or worse. NIS used to use the "honor system." Great fun in college in the 90s :-)
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