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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, aek@bitsavers.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Thompson trojan put into practice
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:02:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109191602.18JG2t5l014358@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd0b2166-54ec-0f2e-7f0f-2fe80abaf501@bitsavers.org>

Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> wrote:

> >> For demonstration purpose I put my experiment with a compiler backdoor in a
> >> public repository
>
> >> It's part of my academic project to work on provable compiler security.
>
> Sounds like excellent grounds for expulsion.
>
> Whatever happened to the people who were submitting poison pull requests at U-Minnesota?
>

Supposedly he's able to show that the compiler has been hacked.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-19 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-19 15:46 arnold
2021-09-19 15:58 ` Al Kossow
2021-09-19 16:02   ` arnold [this message]
2021-09-19 16:10   ` John Floren
2021-09-20  2:39 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-20  2:50 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-20  7:12 ` arnold
2021-09-20  3:04 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-20  3:21 ` David Arnold
2021-09-20  4:35   ` Earl Baugh
2021-09-20  4:36   ` Earl Baugh
2021-09-20 11:57 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-20 13:51 ` Ken Thompson
2021-09-20 14:35   ` John P. Linderman

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