Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:33:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "J. Capp" <jcapp@wilkes.kp.net>
To: Warren Toomey <wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Viral Unix Compiler
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Warren Toomey wrote:

>
> I might ask Dennis for the details. From memory, the binaries never got out
> of the Labs, and it would have been around the time of V6. Also from memory,
> this was the topic of Ken's speech when he won the Turing award. I wonder if
> the article is lying around somewhere.
> 

Ken's speech "Reflections on Trusting Trust", was published in the
Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984.  It describes this
"trojan horse" in great detail.  But I do believe from this article that
it was an example of what could be done, not necessarily something that
was ever released into the hands of the public.

Jim Capp