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 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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ww520 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

His dad was a legend as well, chief scientist in NSA.

	▲	moc_saves a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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tonyplee 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	tptacek 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In 1988? Just stick random semicolons in things.
	▲	oneshtein 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		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 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988.. username: field password: technician
	▲	PeterStuer a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Honestly, there was not very much security back in those days. So much relied on trusting the Internet "community" not to abuse.

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pyyxbkshed 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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!

	▲	maxmcd 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I went here next: https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup