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John Day jeanjour at comcast.net
Wed Oct 15 12:09:56 PDT 2025


I believe that Multics was shown to be secure. There were a few weak pieces of code but those were easily fixed.

> On Oct 15, 2025, at 15:01, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
>> Multics was always more concerned about security than the rest of us, but there wasn’t much we could about it then.
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> Truth. Much of the later work in Security was foreshadowed in Multics.
> (Mike Padlipsky and I were in INFOSEC R&D departments at MITRE when we first met. )
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