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------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 29th, 2022 at 9:07 AM, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > The Hill: The mother of all ‘zero-days’ — immortal flaws in semiconductor > chips. > https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/3617715-the-mother-of-all-zero-days-immortal-flaws-in-semiconductor-chips/ > > The CHIPS Act of 2022 was signed into law on Aug. 9. It provides tens of > billions of dollars in public support for revitalization of domestic > semiconductor manufacturing, workforce training, and “leap ahead” wireless > technology. Because we outsource most of our device fabrication — including > the chips that go into the Navy’s submarines and ships, the Army’s jeeps and > tanks, military drones and satellites — our industrial base has become weak > and shallow. The first order of business for the CHIPS Act is to address a > serious deficit in our domestic production capacity. > > Notoriously absent from the language of the bill is any mention of chip > security. Consequently, the U.S. is about to make the same mistake with > microelectronics that we made with digital networks and software > applications: Unless and until the government demands in-device security, our > competitors will have an easy time of manipulating how chips function and > behave. Nowhere is this more dangerous than our national security > infrastructure. > > For the first quarter-century of ubiquitous internet access, policy makers > and industry leaders did not imagine — literally could not conceive — a > deliberate electronic intrusion from an ideological adversary. > > Now they hit us almost at will. > > Deterrence has proven to be an obviously insufficient policy alternative. > Western civil societies — our power stations, waste processing facilities, > and hospitals — are paying a heavy price for their porous defenses and cyber > naivete. > > Every chip starts life as a software program before it is fabricated, mostly > in Asia, and mostly in Taiwan, into a chip. The process that transforms > design code into “sand in the hand” silicon is just as vulnerable today as > consumer applications were in the early 2010s, and for all the same reasons. > The impact is deeper and more penetrating because once a chip is compromised, > it is nearly impossible to patch. It might be in space or under an ocean. Our > enemies know this too.
