Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture: The Self-Reproducing Compiler Backdoor
When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that would be published in the ACM Computer…
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