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		kmbfjr on March 4, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's Software Quality Crisis It wasn’t that secure from the start. The lpr user was a nice way to get into Irix. That said, my favorite Unix.

icedchai on March 4, 2025 [–]

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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