More than two years of pandemics have shown that global upheavals can also have significant consequences for the provision and availability of trustworthy hardware and, consequently, cybersecurity. German lawmakers have addressed this issue through so-called "guarantee declarations" for critical hardware components with the IT Security Act 2.0, and EU lawmakers presented a comprehensive regulatory instrument to (re)establish European hardware sovereignty with the EU "Chips Act" in February 2022. On paper, the legal concepts sound good - but are they actually capable of achieving the lofty goals, or are they not rather just associated with considerable additional expenses for companies without any concrete output for the security and availability of systems? Accord ...