Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

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https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

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Regarding the recent thread[0] on writing a python interpreter in python, this is Ken Thompson’s famous paper on writing a C compiler in the C, and the class of exploits thus enabled.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755261