← Back to context Comment by pjmlp 12 hours ago Ken Thompson won the award for nothing, yeah. 2 comments pjmlp Reply afdbcreid 10 hours ago Totally unrelated; The trusting trust attack was about downloading a malicious compiler because malicious code was injected into it in some early version.(And if you ask me, it was indeed overrated, but that's unrelated). pjmlp 8 hours ago That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.
afdbcreid 10 hours ago Totally unrelated; The trusting trust attack was about downloading a malicious compiler because malicious code was injected into it in some early version.(And if you ask me, it was indeed overrated, but that's unrelated). pjmlp 8 hours ago That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.
pjmlp 8 hours ago That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.
Totally unrelated; The trusting trust attack was about downloading a malicious compiler because malicious code was injected into it in some early version.
(And if you ask me, it was indeed overrated, but that's unrelated).
That was one way the attack could be done, there are many other ways if the compiler binary can be open for manipulation.