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You're referring to trusting-trust backdoors, but I suspect that those should be low on the threat model: they seem like they'd be hard to weaponise in way that they're maintained through years of very large changes (in the case of Rust). Just a normal backdoor of a malicious piece of code snuck in seems more likely, and a full bootstrap isn't necessary, nor does it actually help at all, to stop that. (But it's still true that a single implementation is more risky in that respect.)


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