Reflections on trusting trust

Authors:
Ken Thompson
Affiliations:
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Venue:
ACM Turing award lectures
Year:
2007

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Abstract

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.