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1996-04-27 - Re: trusting the processor chip

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From: Snow <snow@crash.suba.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <m0uCa4r-00094aC@pacifier.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-27 08:47:17 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:47:17 +0800

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From: Snow <snow@crash.suba.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:47:17 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: trusting the processor chip
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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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