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45:38 · 21K views · Feb 14, 2019
Andrew "bunnie" Huang examines how realistic hardware supply chain attacks are, from rogue insiders to nation states, in the wake of the Bloomberg Businessweek report. He explains how undocumented components could be hidden on boards and how hard they are to spot.
HN people point to it as the sober, technically grounded picture of hardware supply chain security, and an eye-opening one.
6 comments from Hacker News
It would really need to go further than that. Supply chain attacks at the hardware level are very difficult to spot, especially at scale. This is an eye opening talk in the subject: this video
>when one would simply need a microscope to find them in devices This isn't a true statement, if strictly read--there are many techniques to hide undocumented components on boards, and covering all of them requires more than just a pass under a SEM. There's a fun talk that goes over a lot of them here: this video
Bribing Intel employees is probably expensive and might have legal risks. Instead, just hire one of the many skilled technicians in Shenzhen. For a good discussion of this topic, I recommend Andrew "bunnie" Huang's talk about supply chain security: this video
Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play. The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this this video
I found Bunnie Huang's talk on supply chain security a reasonable picture of the issues underlying the Bloomberg story. this video With the caveat that I find Bunnie Huang credible. [LINK]