And then there are potential backdoors in hardware (or microcode). Supply-chain attacks really are a nightmare. Suppose you are a medium-sized IT company (larg

And then there are potential backdoors in hardware (or microcode). Supply-chain attacks really are a nightmare. Suppose you are a medium-sized IT company (large enough to be a valuable target, but not google-large where you can employ a really good security team that knows their hardware in an out). And then think of all the hardware you buy from all different vendors and manufacturers, and make a list of those that could totally own you if there was a backdoor. What can you even do except shudder in horror?