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Did you know?! Ghidra, the NSA's open-sourced decompiler toolkit, is ancient Norse for 'No backdoors, we swear!'

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Running it on itself ...

... wouldn't prove anything. Read Ken Thompson's ACM Turing Award lecture "Reflections on Trusting Trust". It's a good read for anybody interested in this kind of thing.

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