Re: getting around Ken Thompson's compiler Trojan

From: Scott Schwartz (schwartz+@usenet)
Date: 01/25/03 

From: Scott Schwartz <"schwartz+@usenet "@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 2003 20:52:19 -0500

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
> 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.

No, it was for real:
  http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=38250069.1FB422EF%40acm.org