(www.cs.cmu.edu) Reflections on Trusting Trust [PDF]

ROAM_REFS: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

Ken Thompson's seminal 1984 paper on trust in computer software toolchains and supply chains.

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.