On the Subject of Trust (Unix history)

It's worth noting that Trust in one person (or program) doesn't mean you should automatically trust another.

Here are a couple of papers that are worth reading:

http://www.c-program.com/kt/reflections-on-trusting.html


Multics is important because it inspired many features in Unix.

http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf