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   Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:22:09 JST Dan Goodin

   Did you or someone you know work with SSH back in the late 90s and early 2000s? I'd love to get some perspective on something. Please DM me by Signal.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 05:22:07 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @dangoodin I was a university sysadmin (University of Toronto) at the time SSH was released, and my memory is that we jumped on it basically immediately because it was clearly better than rsh/rlogin. Not only was it more secure, it also had X forwarding over SSH (a big help if you worked from Unix workstations, as was the case for us) and I think various other conveniences.

     (We built it ourselves from source on our Unix machines, as was common at the time.)

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     Kaito (kai@ajin.la)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 15:49:01 JST Kaito

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     @dangoodin Did you or someone you love work with SSH back in the late 90s and early 2000s? You may be entitled to compensation.

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