[plug] Idea for a Talk

[chris mcdonald]

    I was reading an article by Bruce Perens on Linux Weekly News where he
    suggests that the software we use could possibly be compromised by an
    author (or patch submitter) including a trojan horse into the code.

A great jumping off point for this topic is the paper presented by Ken
Thompson when he and Dennis Ritchie were awarded the 1983 ACM Turing Award -

	Reflections on Trusting Trust

(cf. www.cs.umsl.edu/~sanjiv/sys_sec/security/thompson/hack.html )

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