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Updated with links to tellings of the story from @JohnMashey.

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Thanks, as you linked there, the short Mastodon thread on ken's hack is
mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/10999
It helps to know that of Bell Labs departments, PWB was unusually close with ken, dmr, etc, in part because our Dept Head, Rudd Canaday had been in Research, was the 3rd author on file system patent application (alluded to in bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist). PIcking up new software not yet in major release was something we did all the time.

Mastodon 🐘JohnMashey (@JohnMashey@mstdn.social)Attached: 1 image @SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org @k8em0@infosec.exchange @realhackhistory@chaos.social 1/ His 1984 lecture on 1975 program https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf is far more relevant today, in era of deep stacks built on open source codes provided by many: