13 Nov
2017
13 Nov
'17
11:10 a.m.
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:
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, ron minnich wrote:
There's a story I heard once in
supercomputing circles from the 80s, that
Ken visited CRI in Minneapolis, sat down at the console of a machine running
the then-new port of Unix to one of the Crays, typed a command, and said
something like "ah, that bug is still there." Anybody know what the bug was?
I remember the story too; I think it was one of the text tools (grep, sed, I
dunno), but yeah, a reference would be nice (at least for the archives).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."