Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Ken Thompson Hack: Every Computer Is Backdoored?" video.

i would try to defeat it by writing a custom data encoding from scratch. i would then encode the compiled program. then i would look at the encoded program. basically making use of the fact that anything could potentially be a custom encoded version of the code that it is trying to hide, yet it doesn't hide everything. the fact that it doesn't hide everything is the weakness (this only solves the compiler issue though)
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