The original essay is Reflections on Trusting Trust. <a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html" rel="nofollow">http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html</a><p>Having already read it, I found the blog post linked here to be convoluted. While I guess I understand the desire to publish a blog post on the subject, I think it's weird to a) not include original thought to add, instead just essentially paraphrasing the story, and b) not link to the more coherent primary source.