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Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf]
- throwpoaster 6mo agoRegarding the recent thread[0] on writing a python interpreter in python, this is Ken Thompson’s famous paper on writing a C compiler in the C, and the class of exploits thus enabled. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755261