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Reflecting on Trust: SuperFish is Super Fishy
By Editorial Staff on Thu, 02/19/2015
In his 1983 Turing Award acceptance speech, "Reflections on Trusting Trust”, Ken Thompson popularized the concept of a compiler backdoor where the compiler not only inserts a backdoor during compilation of a program but also compiles in the code that inserts the backdoor when compiling itself. The core idea of his speech is that we can only trust...