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Re:That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler by colejohnson66 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:10AM (#45704054)
That’s what Guix did. All the way back to a 357 byte assembly code blob that turns a hex file into a binary file, and can “compile” itself.
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