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Given the hack involves hardware I'm quite inclined to believe Apple and all the strong denials.

• manfredo 8y ago
  I concur. If it really is a chip being inserted on a board, then that's hard evidence that can be verified by cracking open the hardware and looking for said chip.
  • duskwuff 8y ago
    And Apple -- being, in part, a hardware company -- has extensive tools and expertise at their disposal to investigate any hardware abnormality. If they've concluded that everything is normal, I'm inclined to believe them.
    • munificent 8y ago
      Cook is claiming everything is normal, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what Apple actually knows and believes. It is also possible that they have investigated, did find tampering, and are still publicly denying it.
      • CamperBob2 8y ago
        Cook has made this claim in a way that exposes the company, and probably himself, to a lot of legal grief if it later becomes evident that he's not being truthful. What does Bloomberg have at stake, in comparison? Nothing, apparently, since they don't seem to value their reputation enough to back up their reporting with evidence.
• panda888888 8y ago
  I believe the Bloomberg story because of their report that the malicious chip was originally found on hardware owned by Elemental, which at the time was a small startup company that had government clients. The hardware was found when Elemental was acquired by AWS and they did a more thorough hardware security review. Elemental would have been a good target because of their government clients but was/is not large enough to be noteworthy otherwise. This is where I trust the Bloomberg story. Saying, "Amazon, FB, Apple got hacked" is one thing. Including a then-200 person startup company in the mix is another. To me it serves as evidence that the hack was real.