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ELI5? This is a at-least a 3rd-grade reading level and I mean at-least.

I've looked into Kerberos before. Who hasn't looked into Kerberos is the IT department at my day job. You can walk up to an open Ethernet jack, declare yourself root and access anyone's NFS.

Don't worry. All we make is security processors, the things that do the bulk encryption for the internet. No problem. Leave that source code flapping in the wind.

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To be fair, the first paragraph goes

"While this topic probably can not be explained to a 5 year-old and be understood, this is my attempt at defragmenting documentation"

Regarding the unsecured network jack problem, I once saw it "fixed" at $large_oil_company by using stickers above all the Ethernet jacks saying in angry letters "It is forbidden to connect non-$company machines!".

This is not shocking many large companies I have worked with are the same way. This is one of the hidden dangers of many big data implementations I have seen. super secure with kerb enabled free for all with out.

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