trusting the processor chip
Snow
snow at crash.suba.com
Sun Apr 28 01:13:50 PDT 1996
On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote:
[...]
> 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.
petro at suba.com <prefered>
snow at crash.suba.com
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