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Who their sources choose to speak to is not up to Bloomberg.
Ok, "encourage and facilitate"
There should be hundreds of thousands or millions of these hacked motherboards, and nobody has found a single one despite hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket. This story was bogus, it most likely came from a ton of rumors that got conflated, hence why they had to go with anonymous sources as opposed to any physical evidence. I'd be surprised if Bloomberg has any credibilit…
> I'd be surprised if Bloomberg has any credibility in tech journalism If the tech world turns their back on Bloomberg, I'll give them more credibility; not less.
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They quadruple-checked all their audits to make sure they were actually accurate in saying "nothing here".
Precisely. Worst thing would be to realize later you overlooked something and have to issue a correction. And a story with this many moving pieces, you’ve got a lot of ground to cover. It’s so very hard to prove the absence of something.
As a press outlet they have a pretty solid defense in the first amendment
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Assuming the story is real it is quite obvious that there aren't that many compromised motherboards. It wouldn't make sense and it would make the attack easier to detect and to publicly incriminate the culprit. As the attack is said to have been discovered 3 years ago it is also not surprising that housekeeping has already been done a long time ago.
Supermicro is a fairly large player (4th largest) and they still manufacture servers. If this story were indeed true, none of these companies or any other company buy their servers. The story is simply fake news.
Obviously no-one would have publicised this, so if you weren't involved you would have had no idea. The story does report that Amazon completely dropped Supermicro as a supplier following this alleged hack (that should be verifiable even if the reason given would obviously be different).
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What bothers me is that we have no proof and everything is vague. The motherboard needs to account for the chip at the PCB traces level to work right? Did anybody saw a weird 6 traces converging at a point for no reason on all the motherboards on the market? What is the exact model? Which bus it is fed from? Give me the name of the bus instead of vague journalistic stuff! Send pictures, output captures, anything.
> Did anybody saw a weird 6 traces converging at a point for no reason on all the motherboards on the market? You do ask some good questions, but if apple can dropship my one macbook pro from China when I order it, I suspect they could dropship 1 (or many) of these boards to Apple, Amazon, etc when ordered. In other words, they wouldn't have to produce all of them with this special chip. Hell, they might only need to…
2017 followup by ARS Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/apple...
So the story is 2 years old from a reporting standpoint.
There should be hundreds of thousands or millions of these hacked motherboards, and nobody has found a single one despite hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket. This story was bogus, it most likely came from a ton of rumors that got conflated, hence why they had to go with anonymous sources as opposed to any physical evidence. I'd be surprised if Bloomberg has any credibilit…
> they had to go with anonymous sources as opposed to any physical evidence What do you mean by the second part of this? Bloomberg should have received examples of comprised boards?