Hence the scare quotes :) We're on the internet, a medium in which information can be trivially exchanged. Easily-defeated heuristics like "authority" and "cre

Hence the scare quotes :) We're on the internet, a medium in which information can be trivially exchanged. Easily-defeated heuristics like "authority" and "credibility" are meaningless, if not harmful, when individual claims can (and should!) be evaluated on their own merits. Basic security posture, sure, but nobody's arguing that we should change that and pretend that Supermicro is completely safe. Nothing is ever completely safe. ..but we're talking about a very specific claim which already has a number of gaping holes blown into it.