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> Who remembers Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"? > The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software. This is a little bit misleading. The ac
by User23 5y ago
> Who remembers Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?
> The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software.
This is a little bit misleading. The actual paper[1] explains that you can't even trust source available code.
[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...