Super Micro China super spy chip super scandal: US Homeland Security, UK spies back Amazon, Apple denials
Officials: Not saying Bloomberg was wrong, we just believe biz saying Bloomberg was wrong
UK spymasters and US Homeland Security officials have supported Western tech companies' denials that Chinese agents were able to smuggle hidden surveillance chips into Super Micro servers.
Mainstream media megastructure Bloomberg reported last week that Beijing's military intelligence pressured or bribed a Chinese manufacturing subcontractor of US-based Super Micro to include a small secret spy chip in the server maker's motherboards. The supposedly grain-of-rice-sized chips were inserted to give China a backdoor into the computers, allowing data to be silently altered or stolen from afar by the Chinese government, Bloomberg's numerous sources claimed....MOREPrevious pointer from Markets Live:
BE There are a million questions to ask here. El Reg sets them out very well, with solid knowledge of both journalism and tech: https://www.thereg...ermicro_bloomberg/....If you didn't catch that, From The Register, October 4:
Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth?And it appears Mr. Elder is wiping his hands of the whole thing, wrapping up his coverage with the closing comment:
Who's your money on? Bloomberg's sources? Apple? Amazon? Super Micro?
"...Anyway, enough about them. Back to us."And so, as we bid Vaya con Dios to the Bloombergians....
