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Ken Thompson won the award for nothing, yeah.

• afdbcreid 4mo ago
  Totally unrelated; The trusting trust attack was about downloading a malicious compiler because malicious code was injected into it in some early version. (And if you ask me, it was indeed overrated, but that's unrelated).
  • pjmlp 4mo ago
    That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.