Well at least one incident seems to indicate that FPGAs can also have backdoors engineered into them just as easily: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012

Well at least one incident seems to indicate that FPGAs can also have backdoors engineered into them just as easily: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/backdoor_found.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/backdoor_foun... We need the manufacturing process to also be opened up just as much as the chip design, but the latter seems an easier goal, though in itself still difficult thanks to IP and economics.