A 1989 Unix finger protocol prank at UW-Milwaukee
By tomviolin · 2026-07-31 · 1 points · 1 comments
In 1989, as a CS undergrad at UW-Milwaukee, I had access to a graduate Unix lab. One afternoon, the grad students discovered they could scan the network for users who had accidentally left their .plan files world-writable. For the uninitiated, the finger command let you see who…
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