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aahz at pythoncraft

Nov 13, 2009, 3:26 PM

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Compiler malware rebutted

Ken Thompson's classic paper on bootstrapped malware finally gets a
rebuttal:

http://lwn.net/Articles/360040/
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davidb at panix

Nov 13, 2009, 4:54 PM

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Re: Compiler malware rebutted [In reply to]

On 11/13/2009 3:26 PM, Aahz wrote:

> Ken Thompson's classic paper on bootstrapped malware
> finally gets a rebuttal:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/360040/

thanks for pointing this out.

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aahz at pythoncraft

Nov 13, 2009, 5:25 PM

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Re: Compiler malware rebutted [In reply to]

In article <mailman.392.1258160060.2873.python-list [at] python>,
David M. Besonen <davidb [at] panix> wrote:
>On 11/13/2009 3:26 PM, Aahz wrote:
>>
>> Ken Thompson's classic paper on bootstrapped malware
>> finally gets a rebuttal:
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/360040/
>
>thanks for pointing this out.

Actually, I found out about it on panix.chat ;-)
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