This sounds interesting. Does anyone have any more links explaining about just how a compiler can even get infected? Edit: Actually I just looked up and found

This sounds interesting. Does anyone have any more links explaining about just how a compiler can even get infected? Edit: Actually I just looked up and found these: Some more background info analyzing a c compiler: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html How a compiler gets backdoored: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/ http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de... A possible counter: http://www.acsa-admin.org/2005/abstracts/47.html http://www.acsa-admin.org/2005/abstracts/47.html