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Re:The Ken Thompson Hack by JoeAltmaier on Sunday February 08, 2015 @09:06AM (#9017260)
How about a debugger? Would it be possible to even hide it? the inconsistencies would give it away (address discontinuitites/size issues)?
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Re:The Ken Thompson Hack by ricepudding on Sunday February 08, 2015 @09:44AM (#9017339)
If your debugger is built with the compromised toolchain, it can theoretically lie about anything, including that.

Though yes, to accomplish this the original infection would have to basically #include a godlike AI that would be able to intelligently infect all future debugging tools.

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