[pjmlp]

Ken Thompson won the award for nothing, yeah.

[afdbcreid]

Totally unrelated; The trusting trust attack was about downloading a malicious compiler because malicious code was injected into it in some early version.

(And if you ask me, it was indeed overrated, but that's unrelated).

[pjmlp]

That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.