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| From: | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? | ||
| Date: | Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:51:46 | ||
| Message-Id: | 7F9FFE90-6119-4EA1-99AE-6E930B00E0B0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? by Alan Mackenzie |
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| 1 | On 13 Feb 2010, at 17:51, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
| 2 | > ... |
| 3 | > There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who |
| 4 | > hardwired |
| 5 | > a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to _keep_ inserting |
| 6 | > the |
| 7 | > backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc |
| 8 | > each |
| 9 | > time cc was compiled. Whew! |
| 10 | |
| 11 | This is completely OT, but: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Not apocryphal. |
| 14 | - KenThompson. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack |
| 17 | |
| 18 | http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Stroller. |