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According to Ken Thompson's lecture at his Turing Award, you can't: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu

by verbify 11y ago

According to Ken Thompson's lecture at his Turing Award, you can't: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... Practically speaking, you can verify that it's unlikely that there is no backdoor, but it'd take a fair bit of effort.

zachrose 11y ago
Impractically speaking, you could singlehandedly reimplement decades of computer engineering starting with a pencil, paper, and a bucket of sand.
- stcredzero 11y ago
  From NAND to Tetris in 12 steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPj5Rg1y2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPj5Rg1y2w
- ender89 11y ago
  I prefer placing rocks in an infinite desert to simulate the the flow of data through a computer myself.