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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by mplewis on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:35PM (#27911782)
> Remember the days of assuming that your box was secure without having to do 10123 layers of abstraction?

Yep, I remember when I deployed insecure apps to prod and copied secrets into running instances, too.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by rhacker on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:50PM (#27911990)
Remember how the ops team kept installing Tomcat with the default credentials?
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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by puffyvolvo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:15PM (#27912294)
This was the funniest point in that comment to me.

Read the intended way, it's borderline wrong.

Read as "remember when people assumed security without knowing" is basically most of computing the further back in time you go.

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