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by goldsteinq 1898 days ago
Oh, the thing with bootstrapping attacks is you never know are there any real examples.

I recommend this[0] paper by Ken Thompson dated 1984 and still relevant.

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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Brilliant. I was going to post this but you posted it first, I read this while learning to program in C, and then looked at my compiler with extreme suspicion.