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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 315: Finger

Finger was a way to query a host or user to get information about the system and the users on it. Users could create .project and .plan files to put what they wanted on them. Sadly, it’s a security risk now and is not widely available or even installed by default.

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PhoneBoy Speaks Ep 315: Finger

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