sure, of course when you contort reality to where college pranks are the same as vast corporate conspiracies then im sure you will find plenty of example, I however meant *real* ones, not what a college student did to another for fun. -- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -- Sir Winston Churchill On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Cromar Scott wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:34:30 -0500 > From: Cromar Scott <SCromar@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: jf <jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, thefinn12345@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how > many on your network? > > Ken Thompson pulled a famous prank back in the old days. He refers to > it in the following: > > http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ > > I've heard a few different versions of this story, some of which would > fit your requirements. > > --Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: jf [mailto:jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:28 AM > To: thefinn12345@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how > many on your network? > > > There have also been too many times in the past when they have been > proven correct to ignore the possibility any longer. > > Hi, in what instances has the conjecture that a bug was a deliberate > backdoor been proven correct? > > > > > > This message may contain information that is confidential or privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately > and delete this message. >