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Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life

2022634 points295 comments Security & Privacy details

Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs. Recently, I've rediscovered this…

All GB/s without FLOPS – Nvidia CMP 170HX Review

2023140 points74 comments Hardware & Electronics details

This article contains a basic Nvidia CMP 170HX performance overview, a performance lockdown workaround, a hardware teardown, a watercooling installation guide, and a repair log.