Do You Really Know What Your Compiler Creates?

I woke up at 4:42 this morning with a question I couldn't shake. So I had to write these line to you. This might not be the truth. This is only what I see. I might be wrong, hopefully. 1984 from Orwell was Not Just a Novel Ken Thompson received the Turing Award in 1984 and used his acceptance speech to quietly detonate a philosophical bomb. He demonstrated how a C compiler could be modified to insert a backdoor into the login program - invisibly, without leaving a trace in the source code. The c