lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 2 years agoThe Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hacktheintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1155
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•2 years 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years ago the concept relies so much on trust and individuals. Everything does though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 years 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-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years 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.
Everything does though.
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.