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This is awesome because it means backdoors could have been inserted many many versions ago in a compiler and as long as there was a chain of using the compiler
by gleenn 13y ago
This is awesome because it means backdoors could have been inserted many many versions ago in a compiler and as long as there was a chain of using the compiler to compile itself through each version (as most compilers like GCC are), the hack would be passed ad infinitum. Pretty evil.
- WalterBright 13y agoThe chain also breaks if the detected compiler source code pattern changes enough so it is no longer detected.
- grecy 13y agoTinfoil hat time. Let your imagination run if someone had done this at some point to a build of GCC being used by Linus...
- zerohp 13y agoLinus doesn't distribute kernel binaries.