The hottest topic in U.S. counterintelligence circles: rogue microchips. This threat emanates from China (PRC) and it is hugely significant. Chinese intelligence services might have concealed a microchip in every computer... Everywhere!
DARPA launched a security program in December 2007 called
Trust in Integrated Circuits to investigate and its findings, which are classified, have apparently sent shockwaves through the counterintelligence community.
Whole story:
http://cryptome.org/manchu-chip.htm
