SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

Alex Martelli alex at am.sublink.org
Fri Feb 22 08:09:25 AEST 1991


pax at megasys.com (Garry M. Paxinos) writes:
	...
:   for vendor hackery, read Ritchie's musing on what can be done with
:   virusing 'cc' in his Turing award lecture in CACM.
:
:Offhand, do you know which issue?

It's actually Thompson's 1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Reflections on 
Trusting Trust" (Ritchie, co-winner, spoke about "Reflections on
Software Research"), and it's reprinted in "ACM Turing Award Lectures,
the first twenty years 1966-1985", ACM Press Anthology Series 
(Addison-Wesley, NY, ISBN 0-201-07794-9).  Sorry, I don't know the
original CACM issue number - the anthology is well worth buying, though
(there's Perlis, Wilkes, Hamming, Minsky... up to Wirth, then Karp...).
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