backdoor (or bug) in magic 5


magic is a very powerful platform to use as a multitask environment.

but today, the 18 of august 1997, i came up to something somewhat insane.
this morning, i wrote a letter with everest running under magic 5, and 
i came back 2 hours later. i turned to starcall and saw a mess going on 
in the terminal window. when it stopped, i saw the last line of the letter 
i was typing with everest.

i don't know when this backdoor activates but it sure can be scary, for 
example if you are typing a message to crypt with pgp while online under 
the terminal program.

the only thing to do to avoid this is to exit any terminal program when 
typing a message. you can load back the program without losing the carrier.

joined to this archive, a numerological analysis that could explain this 
backdoor and tell why magx 5 looks like windoze 95.


faramir


