Sloppy Chips from Intel

[lcs Mixmaster Remailer]

>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.