Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

Post by zeist » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

joshuamorton wrote: post #187

olyjohn wrote: post #138

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Here's what I expect them to do. Show me a real picture of the chip. Show me some samples of the malicious traffic. Show me some code that they found, tell us which server models they found the affected hardware in. Somebody should have SOME shred of information on this, but there is none. You don't just sell thousands of servers, and not have a few of them that end up getting shipped to someone else, or have a few t…

Because it's easier to share words than steal hardware that may be classified due to it's security implications. Which is easier? Telling me what you saw in someone else's safe, or giving me it's contents?

Post by joering2 » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:25 PM UTC

tunesmith wrote: post #63

Is it precedented for a news organization to double down like this in the case where a reporter just makes stuff up Stephen Glass style? Because barring a Stephen Glass scenario, what's fascinating here is that no matter which side is right, this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play. Either Apple was hacked, they know, and are denying, which is evidence of them being under the thumb of U.S. national secu…

Post by chrisdhoover » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

abalone wrote: post #153

moftz wrote: post #135

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Tim Cook would have to know. If there is something like a NSL involved, Apple's legal team would have already reviewed it. That same legal team would also be advising Cook on what he publicly says since he is an officer in the company. He could lose his job or be fined for saying false information in the press (think about what happened to Musk) so its in his and his legal team's best interest to only say true things…

Just for clarity, there are some cases where the CEO is in fact left out of the loop specifically so they aren't in jeopardy of lying to shareholders. But typically it is the chief counsel who is informed in these scenarios. It is significant the Apple statements have been clear to rule out that possibility.

Post by mrb » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:35 PM UTC

IBM wrote: post #79

mrb wrote: post #52

In the past, Apple has lied about a severe security incident involving Super Micro hardware. In 2016 Super Micro Senior Vice President of Technology himself said Apple found "infected firmware." It was so bad that Apple "discontinued future business [with Super Micro] as a result of a compromised internal development environment". Strangely Apple at the time was denying the whole thing: https://appleinsider.com/artic…

What they denied was that the servers were used in production. They also said they didn't find the firmware on the server as shipped from Supermicro, it was downloaded from their website [1]. >Update: A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Su…

Post by rajacombinator » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC