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Re:The Ken Thompson Hack on Sunday February 08, 2015 @09:55AM (#9017368)
Yup. I'm pretty sure it's provable that a perfect KTH virus must necessarily pass the Turing test.

Not sure if that's a case for or against tinfoil hats.

Re:The Ken Thompson Hack 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.