<b><i>Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><tor@kleinhirn.org>Do we know for certain that the feds haven't worked some deal with<br>the chip manufacturers? (I think it's only reasonable to operate on the<br>assumption that Microslop may well have made a deal with them. What I<br>want to know is whether uglier approaches will be used to violate federal<br>statute that might affect better operating systems.) What can they have<br>built into things like keyboards, motherboard chip sets, even DIMMs and<br>other memory cards, that might escape notice indefinitely? Are there<br>other potential methods?</tor@kleinhirn.org><br></blockquote><br>They can build networked computing devices into wires. Imagine Ethernet, USB<br> and keyboard cables all capable of phoning home. They could sell them at Best Buy.<br><p>