{
  "id": 5765699,
  "title": "Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (via the strip utility)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/trusting-trust-attack-against-an-entire-linux-distribution-via-the",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-05T10:58:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "\"Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, in which a compromised compiler backdoors the programs it builds and reproduces the backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of itself, is widely regarded as a threat specific to compilers. We show that it is not.\" A few weeks ago I came across this https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ : it's clearly fictional (and furthermore is \"pre-AI\" in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}