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Re:Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools dev... by knownjorbist on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:20AM (#27829972)
Reflections on Trusting Trust is worth a read.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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Re:Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools dev... by mlatu on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @07:04AM (#27831745)
Not really. TLDR: You cannot trust code you did not botch up yourself.
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Re:Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools dev... by knownjorbist on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:37PM (#27835798)
Never thought I'd see the day where someone on HN is suggesting Ken Thompson isn't worth reading.

If you've never read it I highly encourage you to do so.

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Re:Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools dev... by mlatu on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:09AM (#27882238)
I did read that article, my tldr is what I said.

Perhaps in 1984 what he writes was groundbreaking, but to me it wasn't. Do I need to apologize now for not being bamboozled by Ken's genius this time?

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