Thanks to the complexity of the hardware supply chain, Chinese-owned encryption chips have found their way into the storage hardware of military and intelligence networks across the West—and are raising security concerns. 📷: Bet_Noire/Getty Images
When WIRED reached out to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, a spokesperson responded that the BIS is restricted by law from commenting to the press on specific companies and that a company's unlisted subsidiary—like Initio—isn't technically affected by the Entity List's legal restrictions. But the spokesperson added that “as a general matter, affiliation with an Entity Listed party should be considered a ‘red flag.
But three lesser-known hard drive manufacturers, in particular, also integrate the Initio chips and list Western government, military, and intelligence agencies as customers. The Middlesex, UK-based hard drive maker iStorage lists on its website customers including NATO and the UK Ministry of Defence. South Pasadena, California-based SecureDrive lists as customers the US Army and NASA.
“In the end, it's a matter of trust, whether you actually trust this vendor and its components with all your sensitive data,” says Matthias Deeg, a security researcher at German cybersecurity firm Syss, who has analyzed the Initio chips. “These kinds of microcontrollers are a black box to me and every other researcher trying to understand how this device is working.”
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