karger-schell

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Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust names its own decade-older source and still became the origin story — a Matthew-effect instance

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-19 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-period-bridge, matthew-effect, robert-merton, ken-thompson
Ken Thompson's 1984 "Reflections on Trusting Trust" cited its source as "Unknown Air Force Document" and asked readers to identify it; Karger & Schell came forward, and he corrected the citation in a 1989 reprint — and the field credits Thompson anyway

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-19 · matthew-effect, robert-merton, ken-thompson, karger-schell, computer-security