Several month ago, I had an opportunity to spend some time with Mike Rogers who was the commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and the Director of the NSA. He stressed how important it is to know the supply chain of your equipment in order to maintain a secure environment. He stressed that not only do you need to know your suppliers, but you need to know the entire supply chain of all the components.

Boing Boing has done a piece on Bunnie Huang, a well respected hardware hacker. He gave a presentation on hardware hacks at BlueHat in Isreal, and it is worth the time to watch.