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NFS originally stood for "No File Security".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384073

Speaking of YP (which I always thought sounded like a brand of moist baby poop towelettes), BSD, wildcard groups, SunRPC, and Sun's ingenuous networking and security and remote procedure call infrastructure, who remembers Jordan Hubbard's infamous rwall incident on March 31, 1987?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31822138



> NFS originally stood for "No File Security"

I often heard a different "F" word in that acronym in place of "File".




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