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 <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:

I knew a guy who worked at one of the national labs that had its own Cray supercomputer, in a computer room with a big observation window that visitors could admire it through. Just before a tour group came by, he hid inside the Cray, and waited for them to arrive. Then he casually strolled out from the Cray, pulling up the zipper of his jeans, with a relieved expression on his face. -Don