Security News > 2018 > October > Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack
2018-10-04 16:30
Bloomberg is reporting about a Chinese espionage operating involving inserting a tiny chip into computer products made in China. I wrote about (alternate link) this threat more generally in May. Supply-chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. Our IT industry is inexorably international, and anyone involved in the process can subvert the security of the end product. No one wants...
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/chinese_supply_.html
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