oss-security - Re: Trojan Source Attacks

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Message-ID: <1dfb5a3c1148b0517cfcca5a971ba74fbc55b420.camel@orlitzky.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:51:16 -0400
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@...itzky.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Trojan Source Attacks

On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 10:05 -0700, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> 
> Underhanded code is, I think, significantly different. Instead of being clearly hard to understand,
> It’s designed to be (1) easy to understand WRONGLY, (2) look innocent, and
> (3) do something malevolent.
> 

I'm reminded also of this attack, where the "source code" is some
command you're supposed to execute via copy/paste:

  http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

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