Backdoor rumor

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From: Milton Tinkoff
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 19:39

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I heard from a friend that there is supposedly a backdoor in
(gnu?)emacs that allows anyone to become super-user on the
machine it's running on.  Has anyone else heard anything about
this?
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Subject: Backdoor rumor
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