A significant amount of the tech that comes out of silicon valley has been either requested, developed for or funded indirectly by their VC [1] I would wager s

A significant amount of the tech that comes out of silicon valley has been either requested, developed for or funded indirectly by their VC [1] I would wager some people don't even know they have several items created at their behest operating in their data-centers. Doing security reviews for the hardware can be fun. Any push-back will result in meeting members growing exponentially in most cases. I'm not mentioning vendor names but some of them also get really nervous if they believe you have super-user access to their devices. Some of them are here on HN. The In-Q-Tel website [2] can give you an idea of some of the less obscure vendors. [1] - https://mattermark.com/q-tel-cias-vc-arm-busy-years/ https://mattermark.com/q-tel-cias-vc-arm-busy-years/ [2] - https://www.iqt.org/ https://www.iqt.org/