It goes back to Paul Karger's MULTICS Security Evaluation where he invented and described the attack. Thompson learned it from him. Karger invented a lot of attacks and security techniques a decade or more ahead of the hacking community.
It goes back to Paul Karger's MULTICS Security Evaluation where he invented and described the attack. Thompson learned it from him. Karger invented a lot of attacks and security techniques a decade or more ahead of the hacking community.