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While Bloomberg’s story about China hacking motherboards may well be completely (or partly) wrong, the danger of China compromising hardware supply chains is very real, judging from classified intelligence documents leaked by Snowden. theintercept.com/2019/01/24/com…
U.S. spy agencies were warned about the threat in stark terms nearly a decade ago and even assessed that China was adept at corrupting the software bundled closest to a computer’s hardware at the factory, threatening some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive machines
The docs detail how US and allies have themselves systematically targeted/subverted tech supply chains, w/ NSA conducting its own such operations, including in China, in partnership w/ CIA and other intel agencies. They also disclose supply chain ops by German and French intel
"What’s clear is that supply chain attacks are a well-established, if underappreciated, method of surveillance — and much work remains to be done to secure computing devices from this type of compromise."
"The National Intelligence Estimate even flagged supply chain attacks as a threat to the integrity of electronic voting machines, since the machines are 'subject to many of the same vulnerabilities as other computers,'"
