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Sloppy Chips from Intel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Sun Nov 9 00:27:52 1997

Date: 9 Nov 1997 05:00:04 -0000
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>

>The possiblities are truly mind-boggling.  Perhaps exploits like tapping
>Aldrich Ames' PC and crashing Saddam Husseins' PCs en masse were not done
>by black bag jobs and viri, but by the activation of "National Security"
>backdoors present in all complex modern microprocessors.

Of course a conspiracy theorist might guess that this "new bug" is really a
result of somebody hitting some "national security opcode" and we just
happened to hit one of the more benign "bugs". I think you alluded to this.


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