Re: trusting the processor chip

[Snow <snow@crash.suba.com>]

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?