Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system

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  1. FanJ

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    Ken Shirriff at http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-alto-zero-day-cracking-disk.html

    With comment from Doug Wyatt (Xerox PARC 1973-1994)

     
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    PS: just posted as a lighter note ;)
     
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    2.5Mo_O? They were lucky!
     
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