Reflections on Trusting Trust
To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps It IS more Important to trust the people who wrote the software.
KEN THOMPSON
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
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