Invisible Armies
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| phsolide Jul 21, 2009 4:54 PM EDT |
Has anybody else read Jon Evan's "Invisible Armies"? This bug is shockingly like one mentioned in the book, on page 300 of my hardback copy. It's the second section of Chapter 10 of the "America 3 months later" division of the book. The villain has a CD full of exploits "stolen from the military". An "undiscovered fundamental exploit" in the linux kernel exists, in the way that GCC compiles the kernel. Kind of makes me think I should recompile my kernel with "tcc", the only other C compiler to ever compile the Linux kernel. Probably take an enormous performance hit, though. |
| rezendi Jul 23, 2009 11:42 AM EDT |
Hey there. Jon Evans here - stumbled across this while ego-surfing. That fictional exploit was actually inspired by Ken Thompson's famous paper Reflections on Trusting Trust (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html) (and see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)), but it's interesting, in a black-comedy life-imitating-art sort of way, to see a real live example out there in the wild. |
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