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

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people point to it as the sober, technically grounded picture of hardware supply chain security, and an eye-opening one.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Microsoft Israel R&D Center

Topic

hardware supply chain security

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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: [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 [VIDEO]

• I found Bunnie Huang's talk on supply chain security a reasonable picture of the issues underlying the Bloomberg story. [VIDEO] With the caveat that I find Bunnie Huang credible. [LINK]