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Ken Thompson's compiler hack
I have gone through Ken Thompson's compiler hack paper; can't we just go through the compiler's source code and check for any backdoor, what was the article's point? Can we be sure that there are no ...
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Hiding backdoors in Open Source code in other languages than C and C++?
I am referring to The Underhanded C Contest and Hiding Backdoors in plain sight. They demonstrate, that you can with some cleverness, write Open Source code, publish the code and hide a backdoor in ...
