From: danisch@ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 02:43:12 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Article in Time Magazine
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> All the more reason to use Linux or FreeBSD - an OS you have the source for,
> on hardware that you can examine.


How would you want to examine a pentium processor?

Just an idea:

Take the block move instructions and attach a little state machine.
If a certain sequence of bytes is detected, a fuse somewhere on the chip
is burned and the processor could switch irreversible into a mode where
it does partial incorrect calculations. Send someone an email, an IP packet
or an ethernet packet and you can expect the packet to be moved by a
block move command. 


Hadmut