[TeMPOraL]

Doesn't matter. It's the "reflections on trusting trust" kind of thing - we, our parents, grandparents, etc. form a chain; some runtime modifications to replication mechanism could propagate forward indefinitely, without changing the DNA in the process.

[iamcurious]

Nice insight. To save a few clicks to those remembering this classic (or reading for the first time!):

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...