Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson (1984) and a variation that played out in real life. Diverse Double-Compiling: proposed as a practical way around this “root of trust” problem. However, I do wonder when the need for a ‘trusted’ compiler will become too-strong of a requirement. Maybe time to build the Noah’s Ark of trusted software?
The OceanMaker, 9:40 minutes of storytelling about hope, sorrow, greed and redemption wrapped into a nice animation.
Om Mallik interviews Nitin Sawhney, hooked.
The featherweight website, inspiring.
I wasn’t sure why anyone should be so eager to hand the keys to society over to people whose primary qualification was curiosity.
— Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir