trusting the processor chip

[Zach Babayco]

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

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> 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.)
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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 at netcom.com <----------- finger for public key (new key as of 4/23)
zachb at odyline.com


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