[117861] in Cypherpunks
Re: chips, trust, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Sep 13 13:05:51 1999
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:16:33 -0700
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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At 8:40 AM -0700 1999-09-13, Anonymous wrote:
>At 01:05 AM 9/13/99 -0700, Gary Jeffers wrote:
>
>> Would it be practical for a huge State to force CPU chip
>>manufacturers to design their chips with backdoors?
>
>There are a lot of people at the Fabs who need green cards.
>
>-Kipple
Paranoid, ignorant bullshit.
Designs don't work this way. Fabs don't change designs. Even designers who
need green cards don't get to change designs.
--Tim May
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