"Or do you think a group like anonymous or the syrian electronic army could pull it off?"
I imagine SEA can collect enough vulnerabilities and phishing victims without even developing their own software exploits. But it would be a mistake to assume that a small group could not in the not-so-distant future create hardware exploits too. Now that it possible to contract out fab services, and even at a small scale (MOSIS), it is conceivable that malicious counterfeit chips could be produced, even on a modest budget. For example in the HPC market there's the Parallela floating-point accelerator project that was done by (I think) two or three people. The various bitcoin hardware companies are small shops too. Marcus -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
