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Fragile Code Empire Falls
The Envoy Air Hack that Exposed the Cracks in Software Supply Chain Trust
Devona Green Jordan
October 17, 2025
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Interesting Tech Fact:
Long before cyber supply chains were digital, trust was first formalized in the 1980s through the “Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria” (TCSEC), better known as the Orange Book—a little-known U.S. Department of Defense framework that quietly laid the groundwork for modern vendor assurance. It introduced the revolutionary concept that trust must be proven, not presumed, decades before today’s zero-trust models. What’s rarely remembered is that these early evaluations didn’t just certify computers—they were meant to verify the reliability of every component and dependency in a networked system. In essence, the Orange Book was the ancestor of today’s Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and third-party verification standards, planting the first seeds of what we now call supply chain trust—a principle born from Cold War paranoia that has become the backbone of modern cybersecurity governance.
