The tao of hardware supply chains. Surely they can do the checksums tho.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt...

That’s one scenario.

Around COVID times, my then employer got stuck with about 40,000 devices, 30% of which had undetectable, counterfeit memory that would eventually cause a complete failure. Replacement was a $80M lesson for that vendor.

How did you for out? And what kind of steps are you taking right now?