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"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or
by uptown 8y ago
"Apple has never found malicious chips, “hardware manipulations” or vulnerabilities purposely planted in any server. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident. We are not aware of any investigation by the FBI, nor are our contacts in law enforcement."
Bloomberg's article and Apple's statement can't both be right.
- baq 8y agoexpected given that we're talking about is something that could be the plot of a jason bourne movie.
- cm2187 8y agoOr if Apple is bound by some kind of non disclosure order.
- uptown 8y agoEven if they were bound by a non-disclosure order, this response goes beyond what's necessary to refute the story and conveys material information which would be used against Apple by shareholders if it is later found to be factually inaccurate.
- kazagistar 8y agoOh, the tech described is very real, and has been a known nation state level attack for years. It's the scale and targeting of the attack that is new.
- MrBingley 8y ago"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
- draw_down 8y agoThat’s not how this works.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoNext week: The real hardware plant was counterfeit sources claiming to be Apple.
- actionscripted 8y agoThe other Bloomberg article [1] says: >"Three senior insiders at Apple say that in the summer of 2015, it, too, found malicious chips on Supermicro motherboards. Apple severed ties with Supermicro the following year, for what it described as unrelated reasons." [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
- writepub 8y ago> Bloomberg's article and Apple's statement can't both be right. Possible that Apple employees with security clearance are the only ones with this knowledge i.e. it's fully possible that even Tim Cook doesn't know about this
- xvector 8y agoThis absolutely cannot be the case in the face of the press release. This would actually be illegal.
- lukeschlather 8y agoAnd nobody involved with US intelligence agencies would ever do anything illegal?