[ubuntu-uk] Backdoors into computer systems was Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

[doug livesey]

Is this like what was reported with the Delphi compiler recently?

2009/10/23 <jim.cameron at buhlersortex.com>

> Daniel Drummond:
> > This reminds me of a story I heard a few years ago,
>
> [snip ken's evil compiler story]
>
> I had a paper related to that ("On Trusting Trust") somewhere ...
> rummage rummage ... ah, here we go. "Countering Trusting Trust through
> diverse double-compiling", David A. Wheeler.
> http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ The basic idea is that you
> recompile the suspect compiler from source using a different, "trusted"
> compiler of your own. Then you use the result to compile itself from
> source and compare that binary with the original, suspect binary. If
> they're identical, the compiler is clean.
>
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