Or for a less out-there example, Ken Thompson's classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust". At some point unless you are literally producing all of the hardware an

Or for a less out-there example, Ken Thompson's classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust". At some point unless you are literally producing all of the hardware and software yourself you have to trust someone. The challenge is figuring out where that line of acceptable risk lies for you. It's going to be very different for an indie game dev vs a FinTech company vs the US DoD.