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" I suggest that you switch to the password
"carriage return." It's much easier to type, and also
it stands up to the principle that there should be no passwords.See Steven
Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback],
1984): 417. I have modified this quote, which Levy also
uses as an excerpt, to illustrate more directly how the
program might reveal the false security of the system.
Levy uses the placeholder "[such and such]."
Users who did enter "carriage return"-that is, users
who simply pressed the Enter or Return button, entering
a blank string instead of a unique password-left their
accounts accessible to the world at large. As scary as
that might have been for some users, it reinforced the
hacker notion that Institute computers, and even
Institute computer files, belonged to the public, not
private individuals. Stallman, speaking in an interview
for the 1984 book Hackers, proudly noted that one-fifth
of the LCS staff accepted this argument and employed
the blank-string password.See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback],
1984): 417.


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