> Reminds me of something Ken Thompson wrote so long ago, which I've been > meaning to find again. > > Ahh there it is, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" > > http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
This is a great read and it reminds me of earlier and perhaps simpler times when I would amuse myself by writing programs that did interesting things. Either drawing fractals or pushing numbers about as I try to understand funky things like floating point algorithms by writing my own. Once upon a time I could recite the hex representation for pi in IEEE754 long double format but these days I have to go look it up. I guess I could make a bumper sticker that read "honk is you recognize this number : " followed by a string of hex for pi. I don't think I'll ever hear a horn. In the article that you cite we see Ken Thompson talking about inserting a nasty bit of code into the login process. That would be a nifty trick to get away with but not something that would get past an open source project. Then again, gee, we did have that telnet issue a little while ago. I've lost my focus here because my snv_69 ONNV build just finished .. gotta run off and deal with this now : ==== Nightly distributed build started: Sat Jul 21 21:45:45 EDT 2007 ==== ==== Nightly distributed build completed: Sun Jul 22 12:56:24 EDT 2007 ==== ==== Total build time ==== real 15:10:39 ick .. nice build time eh ? Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
