Tag: SupplyChain

Keynote: Perspectives on Trust in Hardware Supply Chains

  • Haco
  • September 30, 2025
  • 3 min read

This talk, titled "Keynote: Perspectives on Trust in Hardware Supply Chains" [] by Bunny Huang, discusses the complexities and vulnerabilities within hardware supply chains. Key points from the talk include: Diversification and Simplification: In chaotic times, it's beneficial to diversify by having multiple, hyper-efficient locations rather than centralized single points of failure. Simplifying business processes and legal contracts can reduce complexity and improve understanding for everyone involved []. Trust in Hardware: The speaker suggests moving the "root of trust" or "source of truth" into hardware, such as using…

Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

  • Haco
  • September 9, 2025
  • 26 min read

Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that the ACM conference where Ken spoke was the “Annual Conference on Computers.”) Ken’s lecture was later published in Communications of the ACM under the title “.” It is a classic paper, and a…