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A comment on Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech). Parent comment

Re:Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Awar... by pornel on Saturday June 11, 2011 @08:01AM (#2643693)
> What about trusted hardware?

Anonymously buy commodity hardware from randomly selected source.

For added security, you could buy second set from other vendors and compare results from the two.

This way you should be safe, unless whole world conspires against you.

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Re:Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Awar... by bch on Saturday June 11, 2011 @12:33PM (#2644249)
> This way you should be safe, unless whole world conspires against you.

That may be an egocentric way to look at being a victim. Perhaps the target of the malicious hardware is the whole world, and you were just caught in the net.

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