I can definitely entertain the possibility that Bloomberg was lying in their reporting, as like all media reports what's written should be taken with a reasonable grain of salt.<p>But to intentionally publish such an inflammatory article, knowing to be false, which implicates two of America's most influential corporates just seems like absolute professional suicide to me.
I'm probably wrong, but for the life of me I can't help but wonder if there's weasel-wording going on.<p>Bloomberg:<p>> Three senior insiders at Apple say that in the summer of 2015, it, too, found malicious chips on Supermicro motherboards.<p>Apple:<p>> Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server.<p>Why did they say "purposely planted" here? Were they trying to exclude the possibility of malicious chips being <i>accidentally</i> planted in any server? Is that even a thing? If so, why? If not, then why include those qualifiers if they are unnecessary?
Oct 4th 2018: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAHPPXmcts" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAHPPXmcts</a><p>Not sure what to make of the current hardware backdoor story, anon sources are practically useless, but I study this stuff and the VP is being charitable on the real subjects.
It appears that Bloomberg News pays reporters more if their stories move markets:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440</a><p>One can only wonder if this story is due to the other.
"before the congress"... pff how that is any kind of truth-detector?<p>Not that long time ago the bosses of tobacco industry sweared that smoking have nothing todo with cancer..<p>words come and go.. and noone listens. or remembers.<p>btw there's no bad advertisement, only a missing one..
"it' found no signs of hardware tampering. What about an outside party, or someone who isn't covered as being 'it'.<p>Sounds like some weasel wording to me, and of course they can't admit it because of their huge push to be seen as a 'secure' company to store your data with.