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Are computer chips the new security threat?

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Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 2
        February 2017
        106 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3042068
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        • Moshe Y. Vardi
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