Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 13:20:03 +0000 From: Joe Gwinn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Offshore firmware management Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 09:20:02 -0400 Message-ID: <7ld65j55ogderkv4r18jrgshlirkbtcluk@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Kdc8QYlKGqqgRT7kZ4fdUqgBGs3qfFFgo1fwAvqkLxqA1wVFr0f1rZVJLqq2V0rUIJn9sSlEL3SiuxK!PgdTcANIP4ByVBR0/C7ts7Q5gQCtz3VIj8hub0w1ND3S5CgguTsaLarwux2WDuu7vpR/vtI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2131 On Sat, 25 May 2024 20:01:48 -0700, Don Y wrote: >On 5/25/2024 5:10 PM, Joe Gwinn wrote: >> On Sat, 25 May 2024 16:24:42 -0700, Don Y >> wrote: >> >>> When outsourcing manufacture, what steps are you taking to protect >>> your IP (in the form of firmware) from unauthorized copying/counterfeiting >>> by the selected vendor *or* parties that may have access to their systems? >> >> What is the capability and desire level of the threat actors? If it's >> an intelligence agency of reasonable large country, you probably >> cannot do anything effective. > >No. The concern is that the contracted manufacturer (or, anyone with >access to his information systems) decides to go into business in >direct competition, simply by selling YOUR device at a cut-rate price >(not having to recover the engineering/development/warranty/support >costs that you have) > OK. Also, what does the device sell for? This will dominate the choice. Joe Gwinn