My immediate tangential thought is about Ken Thompson's paper, "Reflections on Trusting Trust". The gist is that our security issues could come layers away fro

My immediate tangential thought is about Ken Thompson's paper, "Reflections on Trusting Trust". The gist is that our security issues could come layers away from where we may expect them to, all the way up to the compiler. It's a great paper, but who would have expected anything less from Ken Thompson. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210