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i read a story about a compiler adding malware to the compiled binary once.

they kept getting owned until they supposedly found a pretty dump hack which just appended the backdoor to the final compilation on the build server...

no clue if it was just a story though, as i personally havent experienced anything like that before.




I don't think this is what you're looking for, but Coding Machines[1] is a great little story in which the Ken Thompson hack[2] plays a role.

[1]https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

[2]https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html


Yes, that's right, that's another story about a subverted compiler. I don't have any way to verify it, but I have no reason to doubt the story. It is quite possible, and not even that difficult to do if you want to be that malicious. I don't have a URL for it, maybe someone else can provide that.




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