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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen)
Fri May 9 17:08:21 2008
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 11:25:45 -0700
From: Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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A gentleman on the FDE list posted the link:
http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080509/1194773259639.html?.v=1
and in it is the following quote:
> Last month, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
> began distributing chips with hidden Trojan horse circuitry to
> military contractors who are participating in the agency's Trusted
> Integrated Circuits program. The goal is to test forensic techniques
> for finding hidden electronic trap doors, which can be maddeningly
> elusive. The agency is not yet ready to announce the results of the
> test, according to Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Hmmmm....
Best,
Allen
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