From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 14:38:55 PDT
I'm not so sure. AFAIK, most of the micro chips are designed in the US by Intel
and a very few others. It is very hard to modify those designs in production,
even if done overseas.
IMO, it's much more likely that a Trojan would be introduced through the
operating SW. It would only take a very few in the SW process to do that. It's
also much harder to exhaustively test SW than HW.
FWIW,
-John
bruce C. Beattie wrote:
> Hi Rick & List,
>
> Now that, is a real problem, and that really scars me. It's way too easy
> to slip a trojan horse into a chip that can respond to a signal or a timer.
>
> You could easily bring a large portion of our defense systems down on it's
> knees at a prescribed time. Including things like sattelites, etc.
>
> Bruce
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