When it comes to hardware backdoors, one particular case seems to keep popping up in my mind, and that is Bill Hamilton of the infamous Inslaw/Promis octopus de

When it comes to hardware backdoors, one particular case seems to keep popping up in my mind, and that is Bill Hamilton of the infamous Inslaw/Promis octopus debacle. A few years ago when I was on Scheiers blog regular, he was claiming they had prearranged the backdoor installation at the silicon manufacturing level... Something about that has never left my mind, and I suspect its generally correct. Heres hoping that power8 workstation Talos gets off the ground...or some risc equiv.