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Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”

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266 points longwave | 1 comments | 25 Jan 16 11:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source
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tokenizerrr ◴[25 Jan 16 11:57 UTC] No.10966673[source]▶
I may be missing something, but what is the link between the DES chip and the message being triggered? Because the message shouldn't be triggered without doing the convoluted key combination, right?
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ams6110 ◴[25 Jan 16 13:18 UTC] No.10966976[source]▶
Gilmore's reply seems to be in the context of a thread that had discussed the DES chip.
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1. DonHopkins ◴[25 Jan 16 14:42 UTC] No.10967382[source]▶
It had nothing to do with the DES chip, which was optional. The phrase was in the Sun-2 boot ROMs, which John wrote.