Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)(cm.bell-labs.com)

33 pointsby joaojeronimo12 lat temu3 comments

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

3 comments

Thompson's conclusion that compromising computer systems is no more amazing than driving drunk surprises me. I must have missed that in prior readings.

dang12 lat temu

Looks like the last significant discussion was 3 years ago, so have at it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=reflections+on+trusting+trust#!/st...

infinity012 lat temu

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