From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ken@google.com (Ken Thompson) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:10:43 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Ken visits Cray Research Inc and finds old bug In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: this is bogus. there are 2 real stories that might be early cousins to this: 1. i visited eta (they were trying to make a supercomputer - eta10 - that was supposed to escape all the problems of software by porting unix. i tested it and found a dozen bugs. 2. dmr and i visited nsa for some unrelated business (see dmr, reed, morris paper on the enigma). mumahgh was bragging about the super secure unix that ran on a lot og their machines. he invited us to play and gave us a console. dennis distracted him and i went to the console and quickly became su. i never told him how it was done, and now i dont really remember. On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, ron minnich wrote: > >> There's a story I heard once in supercomputing circles from the 80s, that >> Ken visited CRI in Minneapolis, sat down at the console of a machine running >> the then-new port of Unix to one of the Crays, typed a command, and said >> something like "ah, that bug is still there." Anybody know what the bug was? > > > I remember the story too; I think it was one of the text tools (grep, sed, I > dunno), but yeah, a reference would be nice (at least for the archives). > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer."