From: Ian Grant <ian.a.n.grant-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
To: rms-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Cc: lightning-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org,
guile-devel-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: GNU Thunder
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:52:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKFjmdzdkC5rW3DjBRbRueSiBs9dmJUSxGkPp2-6uc7SH9o79g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1XNssG-00083e-BB-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
On 8/30/14, Richard Stallman <rms-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Are you saying that someone could have put a Ritchie hack
> into the proprietary compilers [...]
Perhaps you know more about the origins of the hack than I do, I was
going to call it a Schell script.
> [...] that would detect the code
> that GCC was going to have -- even though GCC kept changing?
It's surprisingly hard to fundamentally change a program that big.
Most changes are fairly minor and leave the basic structure unchanged.
So a trap door could look at the large-scale structure using
unification to do pattern matching, Then it would be able to adapt
automatically to many localised changes.
> We can't prove it did not happen, but it would have been hard
> for them to keep up with us.
But "they" have all the source so they know exactly what they're attacking..
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-03 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <CAKFjmdyUphk2LmDdDE_7gkDSKAu4COurtvafBwO5XwCgyM1OfA@mail.gmail.com>
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[not found] ` <E1XLP5I-0005zC-Sn-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-25 20:59 ` GNU Thunder Ian Grant
2014-08-25 22:56 ` Trusting trust Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <CAKFjmdxt4jWAHAYXjzwPeUw+dTUBTPC94YJDNifsO7JVkNHjTQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-31 0:20 ` GNU Thunder Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1XNssG-00083e-BB-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 1:52 ` Ian Grant [this message]
2014-09-03 12:50 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1XPA13-0002hD-Kp-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 1:53 ` Ian Grant
[not found] ` <CAKFjmdyc0D5vYBK=rQKzKNK+WRmWhkkL-RXqBMSHvhOzX3fHiw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-05 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1XPifZ-0004g6-KA-iW7gFb+/I3LZHJUXO5efmti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-06 1:40 ` Ian Grant
[not found] ` <CAKFjmdwEs8TtPZjXWDYKoQXz4FEKy6p3T9+8jWLMY87Onn=VaQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-06 8:32 ` William ML Leslie
[not found] ` <CAKFjmdzzRoTdzWxAOh2byRbWDtszWZtt8Z2k0eLCFYR+qmAC9g@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAKFjmdzzRoTdzWxAOh2byRbWDtszWZtt8Z2k0eLCFYR+qmAC9g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-07 1:39 ` William ML Leslie
2014-09-07 13:18 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
[not found] ` <87iokzefgv.fsf-uVHYNzLEwI3da1iInxiBqA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-09 1:00 ` Ian Grant
2014-09-06 15:09 ` GNU Thunder [Comments on Subversins from Ian Grant and Richard Stallman of GNU] Dr. Roger R. Schell
2014-09-06 17:49 ` GNU Thunder Ian Grant
2014-08-24 0:42 Ian Grant
2014-08-24 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-24 5:13 ` Mike Gerwitz
2014-08-25 20:23 ` Ian Grant
2014-08-27 2:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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