Category Archives: historyofsecurity

Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers

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Lots of them weren’t very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used "dmac" (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell command line interpreter, chose "bourne"; Eric Schmidt, an early developer of Unix software and now the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, relied on "wendy!!!" (the name of his wife); and Stuart… Continue reading Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers→

First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives

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The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media — home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald — is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald’s subset of Snowden’s NSA documents since 2014, after he parted… Continue reading First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives→

First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives

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The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media — home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald — is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald’s subset of Snowden’s NSA documents since 2014, after he parted ways with the Guardian the year before. I don’t know the details of how the archive was… Continue reading First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives→

1834: The First Cyberattack

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Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days to arrive from Paris by mail coach. Accordingly, traders who could get the information more quickly could make money by anticipating these movements. Some… Continue reading 1834: The First Cyberattack→