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If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the article you will find the disclaimer Bloomberg LP has been a Supermicro customer. According to a Bloomberg LP sp
by gvb 8y ago
If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the article you will find the disclaimer
Bloomberg LP has been a Supermicro customer. According to a Bloomberg LP spokesperson, the company has found no evidence to suggest that it has been affected by the hardware issues raised in the article.
Why did Bloomberg not buy a bunch of SuperMicros (new and used) and find the chip? That would be difficult but would turn this into a HUGE story. Even if they didn't have the technology to do so in-house, there are many companies they could hire to do a forensic investigation. The weakness of all bugging is that it has to communicate to the "outside world" at some point to be useful and that communications is discoverable. Even Stuxnet, which was much more narrowly targeted than this, was eventually discovered.
- addicted 8y agoIt’s describing events from 2015. Presumably this issue has been resolved.
- gvb 8y agoThere are tons of old SuperMicro computers on eBay for very reasonable prices. They could have bought lots of them of the appropriate vintage (2015 and prior).
- 394549 8y ago> There are tons of old SuperMicro computers on eBay for very reasonable prices. They could have bought lots of them of the appropriate vintage (2015 and prior). I think buying a bunch of old servers and looking in them for implants is so far outside Bloomberg News' core competencies that it's unsurprising they didn't do it.
- TimothyBJacobs 8y agoBased on my reading of the article, the allegation is that only boards going to certain designated customers were targeted. Not all boards.