How to Hide a Virus in Source Code

I’ve been looking for quite some time for this article: How can you hide a virus in the source code? Basically, you create a binary of a compiler which contains the virus and which is patched to infect other programs as it compiles them. This is a feature of bootstrapping a compiler.

Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson.

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