On: Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you

[mr_overalls]

Your healthy paranoia reminds me of a classic talk on the matter, Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award speech "Reflections on Trusting Trust."

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...

[paulgerhardt → mr_overalls]

The “Trusting Trust” argument comes up a lot as the final counter in this line of reasoning. It’s not and work continues.

Do check out David Wheeler’s 2009 thesis on Double Diverse Compiling for instance: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/