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You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
Ken Thompson
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Reflections on Trusting Trust, ACM Turing Award lecture (1984); Exact wording and attribution checked. Original paper, concluding moral; warning about malicious modifications in compilers undermining source-code review.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust, ACM Turing Award lecture (1984)
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  • cs.cmu.eduChecked using manual, 21 October 2026Reflections on Trusting Trust, ACM Turing Award lecture (1984); Exact wording and attribution checked. Original paper, concluding moral; warning about malicious modifications in compilers undermining source-code review.

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