Adi Shamir (S in RSA) has circulated a research note about how a math error in a chip can cause failure of security of the electronic commerce system.
The threat provides an insight into the possibilities of hardware bugs and how destructive they can be. Software security issues are already causing havoc on Internet, if a hardware bug of this kind is found and exploited, it will be a doomsday scenario. For now at least, this is still in the realm of imagination and a theoretical exercise.
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