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Make sure you've also read, understood and recompiled the compiler. And the compiler used to compile the compiler.

That reminds me of an answer on Quora where a compiler was infected and would insert white supremacy messages into the compiled program. And if you tried to recompile the compiler, it would inject its code into the new compiler[0].

[0]: http://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answer...

Even then, assembly is too high level.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw

And then we get into hardware design...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY

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