On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: [snip]
Though there have been fictional accounts--e.g. the French novel "Softwar"--about replacement of chips with TLA versions, this tack is very hard to pull off. (The Infoworld "April Fool's Day" 1991 report that the NSA had arranged for printers entering Iraq to be modified so as to send intelligence info was gullibly picked up by several outfits that should've known better and reported as fact.)
Actually, the report said that the NSA had made chips with a virus on them, and that it supposedly knocked out some of their computers. I think it was U.S. World & News that ran the story as fact, and stood by it even when it was proven to be false. Makes you wonder if the media bothers to do any fact-checking when reporting, especially when reporting on computer topics these days. zachb@netcom.com <----------- finger for public key (new key as of 4/23) zachb@odyline.com
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