▲ 139 ▼ The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack (theintercept.com) submitted 2 years ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments Same story, but this one adds some more details and other links.
[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Ken Thompson talked about this back in 1984, his talk/article "Reflections on trusting trust" is a short but scary read. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf In the end, what can we trust? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up. Everything is risk management. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up. Everything is risk management. permalink fedilink source parent