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As a side note/question. I have no idea how things actually work in companies like Apple or Amazon, but would it be "normal" (at their size/scale and given the
by jaclaz 8y ago
As a side note/question.
I have no idea how things actually work in companies like Apple or Amazon, but would it be "normal" (at their size/scale and given their surely advanced knowledge in technology) to have inspections on the hardware they use (inspections at hardware level of the kind capable of showing these modifications)?
I mean do they routinely do these checks?
- laurentl 8y agoI had the same question when I read the article. It sure was lucky that both Apple and Amazon checked the hardware and found the impossible to find chip. Or, assuming the rest of the article is true, someone somewhere found out about the chip and had a quiet word with a few select customers of Supermicro (but decided to otherwise keep mum about the whole thing). Which would go some way to explain the company denials, because the truth might be a bit embarrassing —or gagged by a three-letter agency.