On 07/01/2014 15:52, Steve Clark wrote: > On 01/07/2014 09:04 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> John Doe wrote: >>> After all the news about backdoors, "planted" bugs or weakened standards >>> in apps, in routers, hardware firmwares, etc... these days, can we trust >>> anything? >>> 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... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles at coochey.net