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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:50:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F9FFE90-6119-4EA1-99AE-6E930B00E0B0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100213175105.GB1783@muc.de>


On 13 Feb 2010, at 17:51, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> ...
> There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who  
> hardwired
> a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to _keep_ inserting  
> the
> backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc  
> each
> time cc was compiled.  Whew!

This is completely OT, but:

- Not apocryphal.
- KenThompson.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-13 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-12 19:55 [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-12 19:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-12 21:21   ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-12 22:52     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-13  7:28       ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 20:43         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14  6:01           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-14  9:34             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-14 11:03               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-14 11:32                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-20 12:08                   ` Mick
2010-02-20 12:20                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-21  0:22                     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-21  3:12                     ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-22 11:29                       ` daid kahl
2010-02-22 13:56                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-22 17:06                           ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-02-26  7:29                             ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 18:20                   ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2010-02-26 18:47                     ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-27  1:02                       ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-12 23:46 ` William Kenworthy
2010-02-13  7:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-13 17:51   ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-13 18:50     ` Stroller [this message]
2010-02-14  6:00     ` Alan McKinnon

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