[keithpeter]

I thought of the 'trusting trust' paper just as I reached the paragraph about the compiler.

As an ex-PHB rather than a programmer, I think perhaps that Dr Phelps could have had taken a bit more interest in the project &c. Perhaps had a look at the code now and again as simply asked "why does this look so unlike other people's code?". Might have sent a shot across the bows of the bad apple.

[Drdrdrq]

This. I wonder what made the graduate so angry to go to such extreme lengths to protect his code. And why nobody noticed it - did they even have the right to fix the code?