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1996-08-29 - Re: Real or Not ?

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From: “Douglas R. Floyd” <dfloyd@io.com>
To: hag@ai.mit.edu
Message Hash: 002abceabfd436e22dcb3ea90a7b2cd60e6a9b9b2191cb3d50b4b0baeddec61f
Message ID: <199608290317.WAA04148@xanadu.io.com>
Reply To: <199608282125.RAA26272@galapas.ai.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-08-29 06:30:19 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:30:19 +0800

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From: "Douglas R. Floyd" <dfloyd@io.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:30:19 +0800
To: hag@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Real or Not ?
In-Reply-To: <199608282125.RAA26272@galapas.ai.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <199608290317.WAA04148@xanadu.io.com>
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> 
>  > > It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it.
>  > >The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation",
>  > >in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The
>  > >result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above
>  > >2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC
>  > >with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into
>  > >itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler
>  > >is older than from 1992.
> 
>     Umm, no.  I work for the Foundation in my copious free time.  This
> has never happened.  And I just asked Richard about it to be sure.  He
> was amused.
>     It would be *very* difficult to pass this by anyone.  People at
> FSF diff the source code a lot, and we're far from the only ones.
> 

This has been a common joke for years now, the gcc "virus".  Its nothing
more than a troll.

(Its getting boring, however)

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