On 07/01/2014 15:55, Giles Coochey wrote: > 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... http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html -- 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