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Classic Computer Vulnerability Analysis Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the mr-potatohead-mr-potatohead dept.

redtail writes "The original authors of the classic vulnerability analysis of Multics have revisited the lessons learned almost thirty years later. Their new paper, along with the original vulnerability analysis is published here by IBM. The original vulnerability analysis inspired the self-inserting compiler back door described by Ken Thompson in his Turing Award Lecture. "

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  1. werfdrgr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ertre dfrgrt

  2. DAMN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Didn't make the FP!

  3. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Funny how you guys bitch about how insecure Windows is .. yet I note with interest that it is not mentioned a single time in this report.

    1. Re:Heh by Eric+Damron · · Score: 0, Troll

      "Funny how you guys bitch about how insecure Windows is .. yet I note with interest that it is not mentioned a single time in this report."

      By now I think it is just understood. :-)

      --
      The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
  4. Coincidence by spakka · · Score: -1, Troll
    The original vulnerability analysis inspired the self-inserting compiler back door described by Ken Thompson in his Turing Award Lecture.

    Turing was also known to have stuff inserted in his back door.

  5. god damn kilogram, how do ya figga by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i don't want to be called yo nigga

  6. The earth is round. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I always found it laughable when I would here how people used to think the world was flat. I was taught in school that centuries ago the Roman Catholic church used to persecute those who said the world was not flat. For this reason I assumed the Bible must have said the world was flat. On the contrary, the Bible tells us that the world is in fact not flat, it describes the world as being a sphere. I bring this up because recently a slashdot poster commented on how stupid religous types were because they beleived whatever the Bible said. He claimed that the Bible says the world is flat. The post was offtopic and moderated to +3 insightful.

    I asked said person, or anyone who had modded him up, for a passage in the Bible that would support his claims. No answer was given. Let me show you what the Bible really says.

    Note- The book of Isiah was written in Hebrew. In Hebrew(ancient Hebrew, of course), the word for circle and sphere is the same. This does not have any real bearing on the passage, but it is an interesting note for those who will quibble at the difference.

    The context of this section of Isiah is the author speaking about God. God is the 'He' that the passage refers to.

    Isiah 40:22 "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth..."

    The book of Isiah dates to roughly 750-700 B.C. according to overwhelming scholarly consensus. God revealed to us that the earth was a circle(or sphere) over 700 years before the birth of Christ.

    The beleif in the world being flat was part of the Roman Catholic church, but not based on the Bible, so please do not confuse the made up parts of religous organizations with what the Bible says.