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 eachtime 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.
