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trusting trust attack: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a compiler-level backdoor that reinserts itself into compiled programs, showing you cannot trust code you did not wholly create.

In computer security, trusting trust attack refers to a compiler-level backdoor that reinserts itself into compiled programs, showing you cannot trust code you did not wholly create. This meaning comes from Thompson (1984) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Thompson, K. (1984). Reflections on trusting trust. Communications of the ACM, 27(8), 761-763. https://doi.org/10.1145/358198.358210

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