Reflections on Rusting Trust
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-rusting-trust/ [manishearth.github.io]
2016-12-02 21:52
This also means that the compiler is vulnerable to what is colloquially known as the “Trusting Trust” attack, an attack described in Ken Thompson’s acceptance speech for the 1983 Turing Award. This kind of thing fascinates me, so I decided to try writing one myself.