[118062] in Cypherpunks
RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zombie Cow)
Sat Sep 18 17:23:33 1999
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:02:06 +0300 (EEST)
From: Zombie Cow <waste@zor.hut.fi>
To: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
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Governments and businesses in the EU and Asia would
do well in sponsoring the design and production of CPUs
and MBs, etc, that are free of US government backdoors.
If they don't have all the resources to produce them all
on their own, then they should start funding Open Source
projects!
Write to the local newspapers!!! Explain the backdoors!!
Demand government funding for Open Source projects! :)
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Zombie Cow wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Antonomasia wrote:
>
> > From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> >
> > > after he began talking about some very curious, very complex, very
> > > undocumented instruction he discovered in late-model CPU's. Instructions
> > > that will put the processor into a mode that makes OS protections
> > > irrelevant.
> >
> > This is scary. It could be time to hoard antique computers.
>
> Or start producing Open Sourced CPUs and motherboards.
>
> IBM has an Open Source PPC motherboard, and here's an
> article referring to an Open Source CPU by Sun:
>
> (Well, they're not really "Open Source", but still, open enough..)
> (Search www.techweb.com for the source URL, I don't have it here.)
>
> --
>
> TechWeb News
>
> Sun Offers Open-Source Sparc
> (09/14/99, 2:33 p.m. ET)
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