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Seriously? There’s no shortage of TikTok bashing by your politicians even if it is in Oracle’s hands..

• reaperman 2y ago
  Huawei has occasionally received a lot of flak as well, which is somewhat understandable even though we haven’t been shown any hard evidence. Then somehow the Temu app started getting similar treatment in the news, which really never made much sense to me. The supermicro thing never made it out of niche tech circles into mainsteam news/politicians comments, so I don’t count that (doubly so after it was reasonably debunked).
  • adolph 2y ago
    Did Supermicro make it outside of Bloomberg?
    • reaperman 2y ago
      IMHO yes, it made the rounds among the major tech outlets at the time. Although technically you could argue that everyone else was “reporting on bloomberg’s reporting”. It would be accurate but not reflective of how readers generally interpret these. They dont usually go “oh wow it’s interesting news that bloomberg is reporting this”, they internalize “oh wow supermicro has backdoors” instead. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/new-bloomberg-report-says-backdoored-supermicro-hardware-infiltrated-major-us-telecom/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/new-bloomberg-report... https://www.servethehome.com/bloomberg-reports-china-infiltrated-the-supermicro-supply-chain-we-investigate/ https://www.servethehome.com/bloomberg-reports-china-infiltr... https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_spying/ https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomb...