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What five years of Chainguard have taught us
Chainguard was founded to solve open source’s trust problem. Five years later, that mission matters more than ever in the age of AI.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. That's my favorite quote, and it's the best way I know to explain why Chainguard exists. In 1984, Ken Thompson published "Reflections on Trusting Trust." He showed that a compromised compiler could plant a backdoor in every program it built, including future versions of itself, without leaving a trace in the source code. The takeaway was unsettling: you can't fully trust code you didn't build yourself, and nobody builds all of it themselves. It has become…
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