Earlier this month I spoke at a
cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. alongside
Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the
Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the
U.S. National Security Agency. We talked at length about many issues, including supply chain security, and I asked Sager whether he’d heard anything about rumors that
Supermicro — a high tech firm in San Jose, Calif. — had allegedly inserted hardware backdoors in technology sold to a number of American companies.