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From the ACM paper [0]:

> Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique [4] of the security of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find a more specific reference to this document. I would appreciate it if anyone who can supply this reference would let me know.

ofc the US Gov was behind this. Incredible.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210



I'm not sure it is fair to claim that the Gov is behind the white paper, in that paying for a study is different than a program to develop malicious code.




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