7 Jan
2014
7 Jan
'14
4 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Giles Coochey giles@coochey.net wrote:
Can we trust the bios?
Can we trust the compiler not to stealthily inject a backdoor in the compiled version of a clean code?Given that most entries from the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (http://www.ioccc.org/)
Yeah didn't Dennis Richie modify the C compiler to insert a backdoor for him when ever the compiler saw login.c was being programmed?
I think that was ken...
You are underestimating government agencies. I think they'd go for a backdoor in the CPU itself - harder to find and only a few companies to corrupt to mange it.
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