BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”

Somewhat related, but there is a great talk by Andrew "bunnie" Huang on hardware supply chain security: ▶ this video

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

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

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