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[linux-security] Re: Re: Linux virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.H.N.Chin@reading.ac.uk)
Wed Feb 5 08:49:41 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:20:56 GMT
From: J.H.N.Chin@reading.ac.uk
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
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[ I've never actually wanted to post to this list, and I'm not
sure I want to now: I'm guessing this will go to the moderator? ]
> [Mod: Unix viruses are possible and they do exist. The most famous one if I
> remember correctly was designed by Tompson(? Don't quote me on the name) to
> infect cc and login programs in Bell Labs. The virus never made it to
> outside world -- alex]
The article was "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken
Thompson, (CACM, 1984, vol 27 no 8, to be precise,
according to this URL found by AltaVista that reprints it:)
http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~sanjiv/sys_sec/security/thompson/hack.html
-jonathan
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