From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71171f53c22d92b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-12 14:59:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:59:44 -0600 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:59:44 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel References: <3FB1A63C.9080200@nowhere.com> <8Eisb.14119$hB5.9208@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <3FB1F484.50705@nowhere.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB1F484.50705@nowhere.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.98 X-Trace: sv3-ASwrRA/pyxkQ2cu4hpYmIpOWaE7dBwEW8Mxu/vflDsw/Uhp2pxaB++BxGeUG2p3kIBTnrXTNhU7+kIL!6pI7S/ZULVFgDgeO99GHLBOTODuOxhooKQs2PMyhGK+PAaNqvAasR9JxnWAE1Bmnc68HNUaB0IcH X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2430 Date: 2003-11-12T17:59:44-05:00 List-Id: > Yeah, = and == make a lot of difference. It supposed to be: > > someone == root > > but it turned up to be > > some = root Correction: it was intended to LOOK LIKE someone == root but the some = root was intentional, and the CM mechanism was cheated to get it in without tracing it to who did it. -- Wes Groleau "Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know it's me." -- unknown