Reflections on Trusting Trust To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

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   3. When people speak of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” as prophetic, they’ll be speaking about Ken Thompson’s work, not George Orwell’s.

   “To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.”

   —Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust, Turing Award lecture, 1984

   https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf