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Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler backdoor - Now with the actual source code (2023)
https://micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse/

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Micah's Secret Blog That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that would be published in the ACM Computer Journal. What he ended up submitting was a paper about "the cutest…
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