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Originally Posted by ixtab
Has this really happened, i.e. has that backdoor really been in the wild?
I read about it before, and some quick search came up with this. However I always thought that this was some proof-of-concept, not that it ever went into "production". Do you have some references for the US Army thing? |
All I can find now is a statement that the hacked version of the compiler was never publicly released. This is contrary to what I read before (somewhere on the internet). As we know, information on the internet tends to not be there when you need it, but lasts forever if it is personally embarrassing. What I previously read may have been exaggerated, especially the part about the military, and my memory is not as good as it was when I was younger. But it is still a good story, and there are newer better hacks these days, like the Stuxnet variants the bad guys are sending "back at us".
EDIT: According to this, it was the US Navy, and it was done with their knowledge as part of a research project: http://books.google.com/books?id=_-1jwRwNaEoC&pg=PA378
