<story><title>The Ken Thompson Hack</title><url>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>The reference point is [Trusting Trust]. It was his Turing Award lecture in 1982. Honestly, it and similar materials should be required reading somewhere in university CS and Software Engineering curricula.&lt;p&gt;[Trusting Trust]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cm.bell-labs.com&amp;#x2F;who&amp;#x2F;ken&amp;#x2F;trust.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Ken Thompson Hack</title><url>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nischalsamji</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t think he told that he actually put a bug in the c compiler. He was just explaining how he could have done it. A very interesting read though.</text></comment>