Comment by rs186

3 days ago

I followed his course 6.5840 on distributed systems (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/, YouTube videos at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...) and completed the labs. One day, out of curiosity, I looked up his name. Then I realized what a legend he is.

Great course by the way.

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Dave_Rosenthal  3 days ago

RTM was my TA at MIT for a CS/systems engineering course. It took the students until we did an assignment about the worm to realize who he was IIRC. The students thought it was very cool, but even then, as a TA covering the assignment, he didn't really talk about it.

  • arbuge  2 days ago

    He was also a TA at Harvard with Trevor Blackwell for CS 148 (computer networking, taught by H T Kung) at the time. I remember taking that with them in 1995.

tonyplee  3 days ago

Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988...

  • oneshtein  3 days ago

    Account "guest" with no password was provided by default back then, to help others do some work remotely, debug connection issues, or chat with admins.

  • mindcrime  3 days ago

    > Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988..

    username: field

    password: technician

  • PeterStuer  2 days ago

    Honestly, there was not very much security back in those days. So much relied on trusting the Internet "community" not to abuse.