Apple needs to file a defamation suit against Bloomberg. This was a deliberate and willful attack on Apple.
Or was it just really really poor journalism that should see folk fired for incompetence?
Interesting point though: Amazon states that Bloomberg was trying the same tactic with them. Approaching them with a different story each time, hoping that the fishing expedition would land them something.
I think they started off with a rumour and tried to build it into a story. After a year, they realised that they wasted a lot of money and so decided to chance their arm, hoping that by going to press with nothing but in-house diagrams and conjecture, something might shake free.
Yeah maybe they were hoping a whistle blower would come out of the woodwork and back their conjectures. We are now into the realm of conspiracy theories since one side is saying it never happen and the other will not back down of their story.
Actually, the story was based on the reports of a whole bunch of whistle blowers:
"The companies’ denials are countered by six current and former senior
national security officials, who—in conversations that began during the
Obama administration and continued under the Trump
administration—detailed the discovery of the chips and the government’s
investigation. One of those officials and two people inside AWS provided
extensive information on how the attack played out at Elemental and
Amazon; the official and one of the insiders also described Amazon’s
cooperation with the government investigation. In addition to the three
Apple insiders, four of the six U.S. officials confirmed that Apple was a
victim. In all, 17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro’s
hardware and other elements of the attacks. The sources were granted
anonymity because of the sensitive, and in some cases classified, nature of the information"
Bloomberg need to retract their Vaporware or prove it. I have already stopped reading any of their news (fake or not).
If people believe in God while they cannot provide verifiable evidence of God’s existence, they have no reason to question the existence of the spy theory of the chip. On the contrary, those who request the proof from Bloomberg should also request the proof of God’s existence. I ask for the proof of both, otherwise they might be just ‘fakes’ and should be retracted.
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"The companies’ denials are countered by six current and former senior national security officials, who—in conversations that began during the Obama administration and continued under the Trump administration—detailed the discovery of the chips and the government’s investigation. One of those officials and two people inside AWS provided extensive information on how the attack played out at Elemental and Amazon; the official and one of the insiders also described Amazon’s cooperation with the government investigation. In addition to the three Apple insiders, four of the six U.S. officials confirmed that Apple was a victim. In all, 17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro’s hardware and other elements of the attacks. The sources were granted anonymity because of the sensitive, and in some cases classified, nature of the information"