From: bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 15:11:43 PDT
I sure hope you are right about that John,
Now we only have to deal with one problem instead of two,
although like you said, it is not exactly a small problem.
Now I know why my daily driver is an M1008 and not one of
these modern computer controlled cars.....
Bruce MVPA 23824
J. Forster wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>FWIW,
>-John
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>bruce C. Beattie wrote:
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>>Hi Rick & List,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Bruce
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