The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

[CloudWatcher]

2. bullsh*t

I'm no fan of buying Chinese, but as ARS reports,

Apple's denial in particular is unusually verbose, addressing several different parts of the Bloomberg report explicitly, and is a far cry from the kind of vague denial that one might expect if the company were subject to a government gag order preventing it from speaking freely about the alleged hack.

Ref: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/bloomberg-super-micro-motherboards-used-by-apple-amazon-contained-chinese-spy-chips/

Apple's email with details refuting the "facts" in the article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-amazon-apple-supermicro-and-beijing-respond