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Apple is very strongly denying it as well https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond https://w
by teddyfrozevelt 8y ago
Apple is very strongly denying it as well
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
- ackfoo 8y agoNever believe anything until it has been officially denied.
- teddyfrozevelt 8y agoThese are such detailed denials that it's hard to believe the companies are lying.
- ahi 8y agohard to believe the companies are knowingly lying. If you're working with the feds on a national security incident, and the PR department comes round because some reporters were asking about it, the correct answer is "I don't know what you're talking about."
- odorousrex 8y agoWhat is more telling for me is that Apple has cut off all contracts with the company involved and will have nothing more to do with them - despite their denial.
- Atlas26 8y agoThey cut off contact for a separate reason - 2000 (IIRC) supermicro boards which did have issues.
- jessaustin 8y agoIf they wanted to cut ties for a different reason, execs could have just said "find a problem with some supermicro boards, no matter how much it costs to do so, and never repeat this conversation". They are complicated human-designed and -made artifacts; of course some problem exists. This is known in other situations as "parallel construction".