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Ken Thompson built a backdoor into the "

posted by Jason Kottke   Apr 17, 2007

Ken Thompson built a backdoor into the "login" Unix program by inserting commands into the C compiler that ensured that not only would the backdoor code be inserted into the login program, but also into the C compiler itself when compiled.