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Re: Real or Not ?
The one-and-only [email protected] once stated:
! I snagged this off a news group this AM.. comments??
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! It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it.
! The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation",
! in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The
! result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above
! 2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC
! with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into
! itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler
! is older than from 1992.
I vote for Bogus, since it resembles too much a story from the ancient
days of UNIX.
This story stated that Ken Thompson modified the UNIX CC compiler to
include a trapdoor in each version of (I think it was) the login
program, thus ensuring the placement of a trapdoor enabling him to enter
each and every system. After that (since all compiler passes are
written in C) he modified the compiler to include this code (to modify
the login program) into the compiler and compiled the compiler, after
which he destroyed the original sources.
Hope this story will not become the next "Good Time Virus" story or some
similar hoax...
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