SolarWinds Sunburst attack

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/01/injecting-a-backdoor-into-solarwinds-orion.html

So the Bad Guys got right into the compile chain at SolarWinds… tricky…

This, of course, reminds many of us of Ken Thompson’s thought experiment from his 1984 Turing Award lecture, “Reflections on Trusting Trust.”

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