I think if you dangle government sources, even "anonymous" ones, in front of a reporter like Jordan Robertson, you are gonna get a story, regardless of the edit

I think if you dangle government sources, even "anonymous" ones, in front of a reporter like Jordan Robertson, you are gonna get a story, regardless of the editorial slant of the paper. Of course, my crazy conspiracy story doesn't explain Robertson's industry sources. It could be, as others have said, a misunderstanding (I mean, we all know IPMI is run through with exploits; no conspiracy there. You just don't put your IPMI on an untrusted network. ) and it doesn't explain his continuing to stand with the story even after the giant and poorly controlled security community has been set to tearing apart motherboards. Really, that last bit points to... if not incompetence, at least to him not understanding how this sort of thing works.