Blog post about a talk by Ken Thompson and the original Trusting Trust attack finally released

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Marcel Fourné writes:

Hi!

> Russ Cox posted https://research.swtch.com/nih and disseminates the
> original Ken Thompson compiler backdoor in this, together with a link
> https://research.swtch.com/v6/ to follow along in a simulator.

Very nice!

> More of historical importance, but definitely interesting and relevant
> to this group, which is also mentioned in the posting.  The talk by
> Thompson which sparked all this is linked to as well at
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_pKw&t=643s

Yeah, while it's very uplifting to see a reference to
Reproducible-Builds, it's also puzzling not to see
bootstrappable-builds, or the Guix full source Bootstrap being
mentioned?

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

Greetings,
Janneke

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