Awesome! Fedora also, and this is a step towards countering "Trusting Trust" toolchain issues

Posted Jan 23, 2015 18:40 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Awesome! Fedora also, and this is a step towards countering "Trusting Trust" toolchain issues by gnb
Parent article: Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

If only binaries came in standardised formats, and had general ways to inject code, and lots of well-known hooks to allow that code to execute (well-knowns hooks supplied by the format, by the runtime, and by the specific compiler code). Oh wait, they do.

In other news, "viruses" are a *lot* more sophisticated since Thompson's POC.