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Comment by JoshTriplett

> Tridge did the following.

> “Here’s a BitKeeper address, bk://thunk.org:5000. Let’s try connecting with telnet.”

Famously, Tridge gave a talk about this, and got the audience of the talk to recreate the "reverse engineering". See https://lwn.net/Articles/133016/ for a source.

> I attended Tridge's talk today. The best part of the demonstration was that he asked the audience for each command he should type in. And the audience instantly called out each command in unison, ("telnet", "help", "echo clone | nc").

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