trusting the processor chip
Snow
snow at crash.suba.com
Sat Apr 27 01:47:17 PDT 1996
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
>
> This analysis seems to assume that the entire production run of a standard
> product is subverted. More likely,I think, an organization like the NSA
> might build a pin-compatible version of an existing, commonly-used product
> like a keyboard encoder chip that is designed to transmit (by RFI signals)
> the contents of what is typed at the keyboard. It's simple, it's hard to
> detect, and it gets what they want.
I thought that most (all?) chips already radiated on the
electromagnetic spectrum? Isn't that what tempest is about?
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