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One could imagine various countries contributing to large open hardware projects and those governments preferring to use specific components that were manufactu
by jammygit 8y ago
One could imagine various countries contributing to large open hardware projects and those governments preferring to use specific components that were manufactured 'locally.' That way you theoretically know what a part does, how it works, and you know it was at least not manufactured somewhere that worries you.
I wonder if the cost of local manufacture would just be too high for the economics to work (edit: it would certainly help create jobs anyway)
- twblalock 8y agoLocal manufacture could still be compromised by employees working for foreign governments, compromised suppliers, parts or finished goods being intercepted or modified during shipment, etc.
- azernik 8y agoThat's a cost-benefit equation that every country needs to make for itself, but it's one that you see frequently in defense contracting - a country will be perfectly happy to buy e.g. a tank design (and several hundred examples) from a foreign country, as long as it includes the know-how to manufacture them locally. For example, in the rather interesting Israeli case, purchase of the F-35 was conditioned on Israel being able to replace the avionics, which are probably the part most vulnerable to unnoticeable tampering.