[119084] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Wave Systems brings you DivX for the PC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Thu Oct 14 14:25:02 1999
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:16:46 -0400
From: Sunder <sunder@sunder.net>
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
> They're selling the design as a standard macro cell for integration into
> existing chips, one place where you'd put it is in the general-purpose I/O
> chips which handle keyboard/serial port/parallel port I/O (they're claiming
> SMSC and ITE have signed up to put it in their chipsets so you'd see them
> appearing in things like http://www.smsc.com/main/catalog/ultra.html, although
> I couldn't find any indication on their websites that they're supporting the
> Wave stuff).
Ah so this sits between your CPU and your keyboard/serial ports. Wonderful.
Just the right kind of component to allow the TLA's to do their sniffing. Can
you say back door activating keyboard capture? Hmmm?
Louie Freeh is having an orgasm over this...
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