by Tdarcos » Sun Aug 11, 2019 10:07 am
bryanb wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:38 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:50 am
I guess security isn't made for the Trotting Krips. That's okay. We'll turn it into a strength!
We're thinking of just giving everyone Sysop access on their first call. It'll be a social experiment!
I once visited Caltech in Pasadena because I needed to buy a book only the campus bookstore sold. They were also selling a book by one of their professors, that intrigued me so much I thought maybe I should look him up and just mention I thought his book was interesting (from the small amount I read (I didn't have enough cash for both books, credit cards were very hard to get then, and the idea of turning ATM cards into Visa and MasterCard was a decade or more in the future.
The author was professor Richard Feynman, and I'll regret never taking the time to go meet him.
Anyway, I digress. I happened to stop in the Caltech computer lab, and either I happened to get to read the user manual for their computer system or saw a posted notice. It explained that in order to allow students to help each other out,
everyone on the system got full administrator privileges, allowing them to kill runaway jobs or release terminals that got locked up, but in granting everyone these privileges they were expected to use them responsibly.
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I guess security isn't made for the Trotting Krips. That's okay. We'll turn it into a strength!
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We're thinking of just giving everyone Sysop access on their first call. It'll be a social experiment!
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I once visited Caltech in Pasadena because I needed to buy a book only the campus bookstore sold. They were also selling a book by one of their professors, that intrigued me so much I thought maybe I should look him up and just mention I thought his book was interesting (from the small amount I read (I didn't have enough cash for both books, credit cards were very hard to get then, and the idea of turning ATM cards into Visa and MasterCard was a decade or more in the future.
The author was professor Richard Feynman, and I'll regret never taking the time to go meet him.
Anyway, I digress. I happened to stop in the Caltech computer lab, and either I happened to get to read the user manual for their computer system or saw a posted notice. It explained that in order to allow students to help each other out, [i]everyone[/i] on the system got full administrator privileges, allowing them to kill runaway jobs or release terminals that got locked up, but in granting everyone these privileges they were expected to use them responsibly.