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142

Parker Dillmann | October 17, 2018

MEP EP #142: Supply Chain Conspiracy Securities

Podcast Notes

Misha Govshteyn
- CEO of MacroFab
- Founder of Alert Logic
Christopher Church
- Founder & CPO of MacroFab
- Founder of Dynamic Perception
- Co-Founder/Chief Architect at Alert Logic
- Chris was on a previous MEP episode about the recent Chinese tariffs
Supply chain hardware and software security
- This topic spurs from recent allegations from bloomberg about the possibility of a hardware supply chain infiltration in Super Micro Computer Inc, which may cause security concerns for servers owned by Amazon, Apple, and Facebook
- Underlying premise of the alleged hardware hack
- What is the general structure of intelligence agencies that makes something like this probable or possible?
- Existing public cases that are similar
- Is this hack even technically feasible?
- What impact should this have on our supply chain decisions?

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Misha (left) and Chris (right)

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

About The Hosts

Parker Dillmann is MacroFab's Co-Founder, and Lead ECE with backgrounds in Embedded System Design, and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. He also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas.

Stephen Kraig began his electronics career by building musical oriented circuits in 2003. Stephen is an avid guitar player and, in his down time, manufactures audio electronics including guitar amplifiers, pedals, and pro audio gear. Stephen graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.