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

[Holger Levsen]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Marcel Fourné wrote:
> 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.
> 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

neato! \o/ it's really fantastic to see how reproducible builds have become
recognized part of solving this decade old problem.

thanks for sharing, Marcel!


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