Re: Beta testers needed for security tool

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From: Jay Maynard
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:34

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In article <6662@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> valdis@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) writes:
>In article <mccoy.716057636@ren.cs.iastate.edu> mccoy@cs.iastate.edu (Chris McCoy) writes:
>>After all, everyone can trust the compiler, right !?!  ;-)  
>I assume that Chris put the smiley on there because he's read
>Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture "On Trusting Trust".
>Those who haven't read it *should*.

The hack that Valdis is referring to is also described in the Jargon File,
available for anonymous FTP from pit-manager.mit.edu in pub/jargon. The smiley
is fully warranted, and maybe an evil grin too.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z

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