:07:01
I and bunch of other hackers didn't like it,
:07:03
I decided to try a subversive sort of hack.
[clears throat]
:07:09
I figured out how to decode the passwords,
:07:12
so by looking at the database of encoded passwords
:07:16
I could figure out what each person
would actually type to login
:07:20
And so I sent messages to people, saying,
:07:24
"Hello? I see that you've
chosen the password mumble,
:07:28
whatever it was.
How about if you do as I do
:07:31
just type Enter for your password
:07:33
it's much shorter, much easier to type".
:07:37
And... of course with this message I was
:07:42
implicitly telling them
the security was really just a joke.
:07:46
Anyway, but in addition
I was letting them in on this hack.
:07:52
And eventually, A fifth of all the
users on that computer joined me
:07:56
in using just Enter as their passwords.
:08:00
[ Where did the ideas that lead to what is now
called Open Source world?
:08:04
How did that begin? Who began that? ]
:08:07
It actually began with the start
of computers because at that time
:08:12
software was just passed around between people
:08:15
And I think it was only like in the
lates 70's or early 80's
:08:22
That people started really closing up
their software,
:08:26
And saying, "No, you can never
get a look at the source code.
:08:30
You can't change the software
even if it's necessary
:08:34
for you to fix it, for your own application"
:08:39
And... um, you can actually blame
some of that on Microsoft,
:08:44
They are one of the real pioneers
of the proprietary software model.
:08:49
In the mid 1970's, a group of hackers
:08:52
and computer hobbyist in Silicon Valley
formed the "Homebrew Computer Club".
:08:58
In the club January 31, 1976 newsletter,