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“Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and insiders at the companies, confirmed the manipulation of hardware and other elements of the at

“Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and insiders at the companies, confirmed the manipulation of hardware and other elements of the attacks. We also published three companies’ full statements, as well as a statement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We stand by our story and are confident in our reporting and sources.”

gvb 8y ago
OTOH, Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the few named sources, is very very doubtful of the veracity of the story. Blog interview with Joe Fitzpatrick: https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/ https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-researcher-cited-in-bloombergs-china-spy-chip-investigation-casts-doubt-on-storys-veracity https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/security-research...
- woodrowbarlow 8y ago
  that's a credible perspective but let's not be vague: fitzpatrick wasn't a primary source, he is an expert on hardware implants who was consulted by the reporter prior to the original publication.
  - sooheon 8y ago
    Reading between the lines, Fitzpatrick's claim is that other primary sources could be fictitious, and the writer fabricated them based on interviews with him.
  - duskwuff 8y ago
    Fitzpatrick wasn't a primary source, but somehow his theories on how an implant could theoretically be implemented appeared in the Bloomberg story, as details of how it was actually implemented. This seems really fishy.