Primos Rel 18/20 Security Hole

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From: pa... Paul Blumstein
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 00:34

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In the early '80s, Prime Computer came out with their new Operating System
(Primos) Release 18 (or was it 20?).  Anyway, one of the new features of
this release was that it had additional security features.  It was
previewed at the Prime Users Group (PUG) meeting in Long Beach, CA where
the Prime executives proudly boasted that it was impossible to break
security.

After about 20 minutes of hacking away at a terminal, a high school student
attending the meeting, printed off a list of everyone's passwords.  The
red-faced execs announced that the OS will be released after this newly-
found security bug is fixed.

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From: pa...@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Primos Rel 18/20 Security Hole
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Date: 14 Dec 89 00:34:42 GMT
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