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blog/thompson-trojan-horse/

When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their
work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that
would be published in the ACM Computer Journal. What he ended up submitting was
a paper about "the cutest program [he] ever wrote"-- a sneaky undetectable
self-reproducing "Trojan horse" backdoor in the C compiler that would allow him
to log into affected machines as any user.

https://micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGm-d5Ch5JM