Russ Cox personal blog
Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
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Security & PrivacySoftware Engineering2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Oct 26, 2023 | Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler by rsc | 287 | 67 |
| Nov 16, 2025 | Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (2023) by naves | 120 | 11 |
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Linked from 10 Hacker News comments by 7 different people, from Nov 2023 to Oct 2025.
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- commandersaki · Oct 24, 2025
- tylerhou · Oct 6, 2024
- ncruces · Oct 6, 2024
- rollcat · Sep 5, 2024
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- ncruces · Apr 3, 2024
