Jan Schaumann on Nostr: Ken Thompson's original Unix backdoor of "Reflections on Trusting Trust" fame was ...
Ken Thompson's original Unix backdoor of "Reflections on Trusting Trust" fame was apparently never published. 40 years (!) later, here it is: 99 lines of code plus a 20-line shell script. That's it.
Nicely annotated and explained by Russ Cox:
https://research.swtch.com/nihPublished at
2023-10-26 02:21:49Event JSON
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