Ross Anderson's "Programing Satans Computer" springs to mind. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/ Ross' papers are up there on my list of very worthwhile reading. Adam Rick Smith wrote: | | | cwe@it.kth.se (Christian Wettergren) writes: | | >Take a look at the IEEE Symp on Security and Privacy Proceedings from | >1995, I believe it was. There was a paper there about security bugs in | >the Intel processors, enumerating a number of them in 80386 for example. | >There where at least one or two byte sequences that plainly stopped | >the processor. | | Yes, and this is where the real risks are. The original question was | entirely about explicit subversion. The larger risk is accidental | flaws. Same with software in most cases. | | Rick. | smith@sctc.com secure computing corporation | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume