> > PPS. I'm really really amazed at how people can consider any opaque > system > truthworthy. Most computer users naively trust their secrets to > effectively every one of thousands of Microsoft engineers who can > easily plant trapdoors. The same goes for trusting Intel. How > hard > it is for a CPU designer to plant an obscure bug causing switch to > a > privileged mode? It is hard _not_ to create trapdoors like that by > mistake, even in much simpler designs (check the 30-year old > report on > Multics security). >
I think it's even worse. Having traveled quite a lot in my previous job, I on one airplane realized that the person sitting next to me was working on the sales budget for one of our largest competitors..... I once (also on an airplane actually) learned that most investment banks have a ban on their employees to use their laptops or in other ways work on airplanes. Make sense to me. But I keep breaching it. - kurtis - / (...as I am sitting in the air somewhere over northern Germany)
