Motor Mouth: It might be time for ‘zero trust’ in our computer chips

As if invasive software hacking our cars isn’t enough to worry about, the pandemic’s chip shortage ushered in a new era of counterfeit processors

Author of the article: David Booth

Published Jan 12, 2024  •  Last updated Jan 17, 2024  •  7 minute read

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Counterfeits. Unless you’ve lived a particularly charmed life, you’ve been, at one time or another, suckered by a fake. A counterfeit $20 or $50 bill that, well, passed muster when you asked for change from The Pint Place late Saturday night, but isn’t getting past the eagle-eyed clerk at Loblaws. Maybe it was the Gucci bag you thought was “such a good deal.” More likely — because it’s almost impossible to have not run across one of these — it was a knock-off Rolex.

Whatever the case, if the transaction wasn’t suspicious, at least the clues to the sham were visible to the naked eye, even if, occasionally, said visual clues required an ultraviolet light to confirm you’d been flim-flammed.

But what if the fake bit was hidden so deep inside some kind of machinery that ferreting out its dubious origin was nigh on impossible until it caused some kind of disaster?

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