I imagine it’s like everything else, you can only realistically verify against a random sample. It’s like trucks passing a border, they should ALL be checked but in practice only few gets checked and punished with the hope that punishment will deter others.
Here if 1 chip is checked for 1 million produced and there is a single problem with it, being a backdoor or “just” a security flaw that is NOT present due to the original design, then the trust in the company producing them is shattered. Nobody who can afford alternatives will want to work with them.
I imagine in a lot of situations the economical risk is not worth it. Even if say a state actor does commission a backdoor to be added and thus tell the producing company they’ll cover their losses, as soon as the news is out nobody will even use the chips so even for a state actor it doesn’t work.
Thats true, but that sadly won’t help against a state forcing a company to put these things into the silicon. Not saying they do rn, but its a real possibility.
I mean can’t they just audit a version that doesn’t have a backdoor/snoops. Verifying against silicon is probably very hard.
I imagine it’s like everything else, you can only realistically verify against a random sample. It’s like trucks passing a border, they should ALL be checked but in practice only few gets checked and punished with the hope that punishment will deter others.
Here if 1 chip is checked for 1 million produced and there is a single problem with it, being a backdoor or “just” a security flaw that is NOT present due to the original design, then the trust in the company producing them is shattered. Nobody who can afford alternatives will want to work with them.
I imagine in a lot of situations the economical risk is not worth it. Even if say a state actor does commission a backdoor to be added and thus tell the producing company they’ll cover their losses, as soon as the news is out nobody will even use the chips so even for a state actor it doesn’t work.
Thats true, but that sadly won’t help against a state forcing a company to put these things into the silicon. Not saying they do rn, but its a real possibility.