The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hacktheintercept.comexternal-link lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months ago message-square11fedilinkarrow-up196
arrow-up196external-linkThe Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hacktheintercept.com lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months ago message-square11fedilink
minus-square Axisential ( @Axisential@lemmy.nz ) linkfedilink11•6 months agoFascinating read - interesting that the origin of the hack is not yet known (or at least, released). I wonder what the stats are on these sorts of exploits in OSS - the concept relies so much on trust and individuals.
minus-square pmk ( @pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink3•6 months agoKen Thompson talked about this back in 1984, his talk/article “Reflections on trusting trust” is a short but scary read. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf In the end, what can we trust?
minus-square The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoUltimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up. Everything is risk management.
Fascinating read - interesting that the origin of the hack is not yet known (or at least, released). I wonder what the stats are on these sorts of exploits in OSS - the concept relies so much on trust and individuals.
Ken Thompson talked about this back in 1984, his talk/article “Reflections on trusting trust” is a short but scary read.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
In the end, what can we trust?
Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up.
Everything is risk management.