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Re: trusting the processor chip
On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
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> Though there have been fictional accounts--e.g. the French novel
> "Softwar"--about replacement of chips with TLA versions, this tack is very
> hard to pull off. (The Infoworld "April Fool's Day" 1991 report that the
> NSA had arranged for printers entering Iraq to be modified so as to send
> intelligence info was gullibly picked up by several outfits that should've
> known better and reported as fact.)
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Actually, the report said that the NSA had made chips with a virus on
them, and that it supposedly knocked out some of their computers. I
think it was U.S. World & News that ran the story as fact, and stood by
it even when it was proven to be false. Makes you wonder if the media
bothers to do any fact-checking when reporting, especially when reporting
on computer topics these days.
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