Among the most promising is a joint collaboration between the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), SRI, and the University of Cambridge in England. The last big collaboration between SRI and the Pentagon more or less gave birth to the internet. The latest project promises to be just as ambitious. The idea is to redesign computer chips from the inside out, adding contamination chambers that would keep untrusted or malicious code from running on the chips inside our phones, PCs, and servers.
