What does “trusting trust” have to do with this? That problem is a bootstrapping problem when trying to establish a trusted base. Simple summary is: if the firs

What does “trusting trust” have to do with this? That problem is a bootstrapping problem when trying to establish a trusted base. Simple summary is: if the first compiler was backdoored to detect when it is compiling other versions of itself and then inserting the same backdoor in the assembly of the target then how can you trust anything compiled by it?