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

Post by tomtang0514 » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 1:33 AM UTC

moftz wrote: post #135

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…

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…

Post by exikyut » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

billylindeman wrote: post #164

crankylinuxuser wrote: post #144

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Long story short, this is really wanting me to obtain the gerbers for the motherboards I use, and verify the parts on the board are the parts listed. This the basis of open source hardware. The next step is to obtain firmware for each chip, and compile and load it on all programmable chips. Again, but open source firmware. Then moving up, we need an open source OS, which we have. The last area is having open source s…

I wonder if you could solve the fab issue with some sort of xray based checksum that is reproducible by third parties (maybe universities?)

Post by tzakrajs » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #131

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…

You don't need to resort to spooky forces to imagine why Apple wants to deny an attack on their security. It damages the value of the company, especially in a time when they try to market themselves as security conscious.

Post by dlgeek » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 2:11 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #217

IBM wrote: post #79

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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…

« Christopher Wray, in a congressional hearing, said "be careful what you read" » Like philwelch mentioned, the FBI has a policy of never publicly commenting on ongoing investigations. Wray's statement—extremely vague and neither confirming nor denying the story—thus implies there is an ongoing investigation... Hmm.

Post by MaysonL » Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 2:20 AM 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…