According to this article, your microchips could be flawed, and hackers could break into them.
Yes, that's right. Hackers breaking into your computer chips.
From the article,
"Mr Seifert's research envisages that
hackers will find it far easier and quicker in the future using a small
piece of spy software that tracks microchips. In a still-confidential study, Mr Seifert
and his colleagues explain how they managed "in only one attempt" to
obtain a 512-bit encryption key in just a few thousandths of a second."
Gee, this sounds impressive.
"Mr Seifert plans to demonstrate his method at the beginning of 2007 at an conference on encryption."
As interesting as it promises to be, I think I might just pass on that conference.
Props to mazzanet for discovering this hideous little atrocity.