There was no editorializing here by the poster of this article, but given recent news I have to suspect it's obliquely a claim that there may be certain incenti

There was no editorializing here by the poster of this article, but given recent news I have to suspect it's obliquely a claim that there may be certain incentives at play in the recent reporting of the SuperMicro issue (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... and Amazon/Apple/gov't-agency denials). I don't feel that I know enough to make claims about how justified (or not) that is, just pointing out why a story dated "Dec. 11, 2013" might have been posted.