Re: [PLUG] trojan, ransomware

[Martin Cracauer via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Syeed Ali via plug wrote on Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 12:13:03PM -0700: 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 11:21:26 -0400
> jeffv via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > ???Trojan Source??? Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
> 
> Well shit.
> 
> I guess we all knew it was coming.  Compiler complexity and security was
> something I had read about a while back.  I can't recall the title of
> the essay that spoke about the intentional introduction bugs within a
> compiler, but it forever changed my idea of trust in software.

Do we really need unicode in source code?

Serious question.  I don't want to be all English-rulz, but
realistically everybody programs in English.

Also, do Emacs or VIM support unicode control characters in regular
source code buffers? I think the article talks about compilers which
can use 32 bit characters in source code (in literal strings and in
comments).  I don't want that in the first place.

Martin
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