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Although you can end up with fun situations like the C compiler backdoor: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-de...



You can start from the C version and move forward and check that you get the same result as starting with released Go binaries.

Unless you think Ken somehow backdoored the original C compilers to backdoor every C compiler in the world to backdoor the Go compilers that came about decades later. :-)


Seems simpler to just backdoor the linker/library archiver, that way almost all toolchains are backdoored. ;)


Haven't read the article you linked to, but the Brian Kernighan talk it discusses is fantastic, one of my favorite reads in the field:

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...


That's ken, not bwk.


D'oh. Thanks.




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