Its not new at all
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| q Oct 11, 2007 6:01 AM EDT |
You cant trust anything that is build with compromised compiler. Ken Thompson wrote about this some time ago. |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2007 6:26 AM EDT |
Thompson's compiler case is the extreme, but, yes, this is a similar concept. If I understand what they are saying, and I may not, it is different in a fundamental way. That would be the creation of a trust relationship on tools you download and never verify. it's like the C compiler problem gone mad. In this toolkit-based object-oriented world, we may grab a number of different tools from a number of different providers and never think twice about it. In the old days, chances are we used the compiler we got from the vendor. |
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