On Saturday 13 January 2007 5:04 am, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 13 January 2007 03:51, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > program, allowing Ken Thompson to access any UNIX system. The scheme > > was so fiendish that if you tried remove the back-door generating code > > from the source code and recompile the compiler, the compiler would > > reintroduce the back door generation into the source code! > > Well, the code wasn't in the released source version. The compiler > recognised when it was compiling itself, and inserted the code at the > proper place. > > If it had been in the released source, there would have been an uproar > about it > > btw, if you're googling for it, google the archives of this list. I've > mentioned this hack a few times, along with a link to the speech.
The reference to "source code" in the first paragraph almost certainly should have been to "object code" -- just a slip of the keyboard. The slip appears in the Google reference and wasn't introduced by anyone on this list. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
