Humor? The NSA tried to introduce an encryption chip[1] and get telecommunications providers to use it. It had a backdoor so that they could decrypt anything th

Humor? The NSA tried to introduce an encryption chip[1] and get telecommunications providers to use it. It had a backdoor so that they could decrypt anything that used it. I vaguely remember hearing other stories where chips were made with secret backdoors in them, but I can't seem to find any. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip