Comment by rs186
1 day 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.
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.
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.
His dad was a legend as well, chief scientist in NSA.
Which is why he was able to survive taking the fall alone, and let Paul Graham go on to have an illustrious career of picking fights with obscure bloggers and saying dumb things about women in tech.
Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988...
In 1988? Just stick random semicolons in things.
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.
Honestly, there was not very much security back in those days. So much relied on trusting the Internet "community" not to abuse.
> Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988..
username: field
password: technician
I am also doing the course now in my freetime. Even I wasn't aware who he is.
On a sidenote, what did you do after the course?
It is an amazing course though!
I went here next: https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup