Re: getting around Ken Thompson's compiler Trojan

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:31:00 GMT

In article <BjIX9.213$1D6.85225615@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
Alun Jones <alun@texis.com> wrote:
>And yet, ISTR that Thompson claimed he found evidence that his adjusted
>compiler was still adjusting itself in relatively recent systems, several
>years after the first version.

I don't think he ever actually implemented it, so this sounds like an urban
legend. Like I said, it was just a thought experiment that he described in
his Turing Award lecture. 

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