Thought it was interesting that plans for the Clipper Chip were canceled around the time the recently discovered CPU vulnerabilities were introduced. Extremely

Thought it was interesting that plans for the Clipper Chip were canceled around the time the recently discovered CPU vulnerabilities were introduced. Extremely unlikely that there was some conspiracy given the number of vendors affected, but a possibility given the magnitude of the military budget and the value of being able to decrypt enemy communications via side-channel attacks.