🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <PHR.92Sep30185509@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
>would be pretty incriminating).  As a modern day alternative, I've
>often thought the No Such Agency could do the following:
>
>   - write encryption/decryption code that runs in an embedded
>     micro of the kind found in calculators.
>
>   - go to favorite defense contractor that also makes calculators
>     (e.g. TI), and say "we want you to make a new model of simple,
>     consumer calculator, priced so lots of people will buy them
>     (here's some $$$ to make it profitable), and by the way, when
>     the user types this undocumented 20-keystroke sequence, it should
>     run this code that we'll supply (from previous step).
>
>   - The calculator goes on the market and becomes popular, so
>     the spy can carry one without drawing suspicion.  The special
>     key sequence is made long enough and weird enough that no one
>     will ever enter it by accident.  Of course, hitting clear
>     in this mode reverts it to a normal calculator, in case 
>     someone walks in on the spy (see Follett's "Eye of the Needle").

Why not just go buy an HP-48 and replace the chip with your own chip
that has everything you want.  C'mon you need to watch more 007
movies ...

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