In Through The Out Door

Wired’s Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. “It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal [...]

IEEE Spectrum story on an interesting DARPA project with some scary implications about just what it is we don’t know about what chips are doing under the surface. It’s a difficult problem to find invasive or otherwise malicious capabilities built into a CPU; this project’s goal is to see whether vendors can find [...]