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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) (cm.bell-labs.com)
33 points by joaojeronimo 4220 days ago
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David A. Wheeler’s Page on Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers

http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

First step:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Thompson's conclusion that compromising computer systems is no more amazing than driving drunk surprises me. I must have missed that in prior readings.
Looks like the last significant discussion was 3 years ago, so have at it.

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