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So, technically, it is possible that there's an undetected backdoor that has lingered around since GCC 1.0

• smegger001 10y ago
  Technically it would have been in the original C complier written for the original unix by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, and been compiled in every complier and login utility since the 70s. At this point try finding a complier that doesn't trace is compiling lineage at some point reach back to a complier compiled by a complier that doens't eventually reach back to it may be pretty hard.
  • nwah1 10y ago
    True, but that compiler wasn't open source. The real head-scratcher here seems to be that you can have a self-replicating security vulnerability in a completely open source stack including the compiler