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Re: trusting the processor chip



On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
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> and will be very hard to separate.  If it is possible to replace a keyboard 
> chip with a Trojan Horse, the one desired target will be far more identifiable.

	Why go thru all the hassle when software would be easier? Or a 
very small camera placed in the ceiling watching the keyboard? 

	It would seem to me that building a hacked chip that did 
_everything_ that the original did plus would be a lot more difficult 
(think Fab Plants, tool up costs, engineering) than just faking an alien 
abduction...


Petro, Christopher C.
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