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The Ken Thompson Hack

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  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TLDR; its an evil attack where a compiler get modified to inject a virus/backdoor in apps plus be able to detect when its compiling itself (from clean source code) and add the part that inject backdoor

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