Does open source guarantee that there are no backdoors? At the 1983 Turing Award ceremony, Ken Thompson raised this question. As one of only three legends to win the Turing Award before the age of 40, he demonstrated how to hack Unix systems compiled from harmless source code by implanting backdoors in compilers, remaining a tale frequently cited by hackers to this day. In 2024, the XZ backdoor incident resurfaced this question. Under the nose of the open-source community, attackers successfu...
