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I'm reading a book called 'Nexus' at the moment. Last night I read a part where they are deliberately installing a backdoor in their own system. They do it by m
by davedx 9y ago
I'm reading a book called 'Nexus' at the moment. Last night I read a part where they are deliberately installing a backdoor in their own system. They do it by modifying the compiler itself to inject malicious machine code into the binary. It's hands down the best technical description of hacking I've ever read in a work of fiction - highly recommended.
- Taniwha 9y agoAlready been done - it was the subject of Ken Thompson's Turing award paper http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358210/reflections.pdf?ip=203.86.204.69&id=358210&acc=OPEN&key=4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E6D218144511F3437&CFID=983668164&CFTOKEN=60374561&__acm__=1505206740_44d52154950e9825dd69d394ccfb7d90 http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358210/reflections.pd...
- Sean1708 9y agoYour link doesn't seem to work for me, but I presume you're talking about Reflections On Trusting Trust[0]? [0]: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
- Taniwha 9y agoyes, thanks - looks like the ACM hands out temp URLs
- noir_lord 9y agoIf you like that kind of book check out Daniel Suarez. Daemon had me hooked, it's great when an actual techie does sci-fi.
- andrewflnr 9y agoLooks interesting. Have you read Charles Stross (developer, sometime HN poster) and Vernor Vinge (CS professor)?