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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

Ken Thompson
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"Reflections on Trusting Trust". Communications of the ACM 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.