[Cryptography] Intel's $10-100 billion Minix copyright problem

Kevin W. Wall kevin.w.wall at gmail.com
Sun Dec 10 17:44:46 EST 2017


On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

... big snip ...
>
> I'm now expecting to hear that Intel was *forced* by the
> FISA "court" (perhaps not even an actual Article 3 court
> [3]) to incorporate the ME "spy engine" into every chip,
> and that same "court" issued an NSL to keep the existence
> of this "spy engine" secret.

That may very well be, but if that were the case, I wouldn't expect
the public to _officially_ hear about that as a defense for Intel.
Isn't this sort of like Fight Club? That is the first rule about NSL
is that you can't talk about your NSL? Or is there something that I'm
missing here?

-kevin
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