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   JohnMashey (johnmashey@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 18:13:38 JST JohnMashey

   in reply to

   @arstechnica
   Reminder of Ken Thompson’s 1984 Turing lecture, Reflections in Trusting Trust, about a1975 hack:
   https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
   It’s even more relevant now given the greatly-increased layers of software used by programmers.
   Tidbit: AFAIK, out group was the only one to notice this hack, which occurred a few weeks after I’d read John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider & laughed prematurely at idea of worms with infinitely-replicating tails.

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   Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 21:19:08 JST Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

   @dch @oldmankris @jk https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf