A reference to Ken Thompson’s fantastic paper Reflections on Trusting Trust popped up yesterday on Hacker News. I’ve written about this paper before but it deserves a periodic mention.
If you haven’t read this paper before, I urge you in the strongest terms to do so right now. Suffice to say that it has been described as “a truly moby hack” and “the greatest hack of all time.” Really, you’ll be glad you checked it out.