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   On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:22:37 +0100   
   Björn Lundin  wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-02-11 06:17, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   > > 	The point of Ken Thomson's attack is that you have to compile   
   > > those gcc sources and that compiler can poison the binary you produce   
   > > from the clean gcc sources. So inspecting sources doesn't help you.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Ah, oh, didn't know that.   
      
   	It was a classic eye-opening paper, it is extremely hard to get a   
   system that is certain not to contain any hidden surprises - you have have   
   to write your own assembler in machine code, compiler in assembler and   
   build your own hardware, from scratch.   
      
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