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		verbify on Nov 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DIY Laptop 64 bit ARM According to Ken Thompson's lecture at his Turing Award, you can't: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... Practically speaking, you can verify that it's unlikely that there is no backdoor, but it'd take a fair bit of effort.

zachrose on Dec 1, 2015 [–]

Impractically speaking, you could singlehandedly reimplement decades of computer engineering starting with a pencil, paper, and a bucket of sand.

stcredzero on Dec 1, 2015 | | [–]

From NAND to Tetris in 12 steps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPj5Rg1y2w

ender89 on Dec 1, 2015 | | [–]

I prefer placing rocks in an infinite desert to simulate the the flow of data through a computer myself.

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