Sloppy Chips from Intel

The possiblities are truly mind-boggling. Perhaps exploits like tapping Aldrich Ames' PC and crashing Saddam Husseins' PCs en masse were not done by black bag jobs and viri, but by the activation of "National Security" backdoors present in all complex modern microprocessors.

Of course a conspiracy theorist might guess that this "new bug" is really a result of somebody hitting some "national security opcode" and we just happened to hit one of the more benign "bugs". I think you alluded to this.