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Felt pretty bad for SuperMicro after they took the huge financial hit from the story which offered no physical proof. Glad to see they mostly recovered from it.
by redwards510 7y ago
Felt pretty bad for SuperMicro after they took the huge financial hit from the story which offered no physical proof. Glad to see they mostly recovered from it.
The story was extremely interesting, but as people dug into it, it seemed like the reporters had a bunch of conversations like this:
Security Researcher: So, in theory, you can do a lot of crazy stuff! Embed a tiny chip on a motherboard, stick it in an Amazon datacenter, sniff all sorts of things...
Reporter: Are you winking right now? I swear you are winking! So you are saying this is true? OMG. Wow, what a bombshell!
Security Researcher: I was not winking.
Reporter: Suuuuuuuuuuuuure you weren't.
- PixyMisa 7y agoThe only on-the-record source said that was exactly what happened to him. He assumed at first that Bloomberg had confirmed his hypothetical scenario with another source, but it now seems that the story was hypotheticals and winks all the way down.