1997-11-09 - Sloppy Chips from Intel

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From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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UTC Datetime: 1997-11-09 05:04:43 UTC
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From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:04:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Sloppy Chips from Intel
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>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.






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