The Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers
Siddharth Garg is one of the 10 most brilliant people of 2016.
- Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard for Popular Science August 25th, 2016
- Source: http://www.popsci.com/man-who-defends-hardware-from-hackers
It might sound like the premise of a bad supervillain flick, but it’s all too feasible: Hackers can tweak a microchip so when a certain trigger occurs, it throws open the gates for attackers to commandeer—or destroy—the device in which that chip is embedded. All it takes is one saboteur at the factory, and you’ve got the kind of scenario no one (particularly the Department of Defense) wants to consider. What’s worse: After chip companies send their designs to manufacture, it’s almost impossible to tell if the final product has been tampered with.
