From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 14:45:11 PDT
What's SW and HW? I live a life of endless ignorance!!
Lar
> 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
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