Need trojan horse info - (nf)

muha%bbn-unix at sri-unix.UUCP muha%bbn-unix at sri-unix.UUCP
Tue Sep 27 23:40:29 AEST 1983


From:  Ralph Muha <muha at bbn-unix>

Having worked at Bell Labs, I can testify that the Trojan horse story
is true.  It was perpetrated by none other than Dennis Ritchie.
Interestingly, it was detected by some folks at Bell Labs in Holmdel
who were smart enough to compare the sizes of the executables produced
by the old and new versions of cp[C[Dp.  Just goes to show you that there
is no substitute for vigilance when it comes to system security.



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