Re: NSA enhancing Linux security?

From: Billy O'Connor (billyoc_at_gnuyork.org)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:44:18 GMT

Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xx.xxx> writes:

> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> The bigger concerns would be that Intel (or AMD or nVidia or ATI)
>> might have included on-CPU patches that would allow the NSA to submit
>> particular patterns of instructions that would let them take over
>> systems "as if by magic;"
>
> Aaaarrrrghhh!!! Why did you do that to me, Christopher, why?! :-)

*head explodes* 

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