XPost: alt.privacy, comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc, alt.comp.lang.pascal   
   From: abc@xyz.com   
      
   anonymous  wrote in news:h6q0l0$abk$1@news.mixmin.net:   
      
   > Security experts seem more intrigued than alarmed over a   
   > newly-discovered virus that inserts itself into a Delphi compiler, and   
   > replicates itself in every program compiled.   
   >   
   > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/induc/   
   >   
      
   Talk about old news!   
      
   To understand why security experts are not particularly surprised one need   
   only read the famous 1984 paper, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by the   
   also-famous Ken Thompson.  It's been known for 25 years that a suborned   
   compiler can infect what it compiles - Ken even provided proof-of-concept   
   code.   
      
   Regards,   
      
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