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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by kmbfjr on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:22PM (#43249498)
It wasn’t that secure from the start. The lpr user was a nice way to get into Irix.

That said, my favorite Unix.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by icedchai on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:31PM (#43249577)
It definitely wasn't! I remember the irix 5.x and earlier days. By default, it shipped without any X11 authentication enabled. This meant everyone on the network could keylog your machine.
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