On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:29:47 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > >Oops, I meant security hole. Frankly I suspect that the smartest >thing that any nation's national security apparatus can do is make >sure it controls the manufacture of any hardware and software used for >sensitive purposes. What code can be hidden in a microprocessor with >millions of bits worth of transistor? What code can be hidden on a >USB stick? > Indeed. Cf.: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
TURINGAWARDLECTURE Reflections on Trusting Trust To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software. ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
