Daily Insight: Supply Chain | Equipment Bans as Security Theater

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Assumption Retired Equipment bans prevent adversarial hardware from entering operational environments.

Insight Regulatory prohibition is not operational removal. The FCC added foreign drones and components to the Covered List, but existing inventory, prior authorizations, and component supply chains remain intact. The adversary already operates inside the installed base, and no role exists to declare that presence acceptable or remediated.

Unresolved Edge When a regulator bans equipment already deployed, someone must sign the attestation that legacy devices no longer pose risk. That owner has not been named.