UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson's BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

2019-10-11 10:33

A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers. In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted an interesting "/etc/passwd" file in a publicly available source tree of historian BSD version

News URL

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/1ZJ1XOug_Bs/unix-bsd-password-cracked.html

#BSD #unix