“Bloomberg said that its sources were key to its decision to run the Chinese spy chip story, the site writing that ’17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro’s hardware and other elements of the attacks,'” Ben Lovejoy reports for Bloomberg. “However, one of the named sources – a security researcher who seemingly backed the claims – has said that his comment was taken out of context, and he actually told the site that what it was describing to him ‘didn’t make sense.'”
“Hardware security expert Joe Fitzpatrick was quoted in the piece saying ‘the hardware opens whatever door it wants,'” Lovejoy reports. “But speaking on the podcast Risky Business, he painted a very different picture.”
“Fitzpatrick says that he spent a lot of time explaining to Bloomberg how such attacks could, in principle, be carried out,” Lovejoy reports. “When the piece was published, he was expecting to read about how this specific hack was achieved. Instead, he said, Bloomberg appeared to be parroting the precise theory he had outlined.”
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MacDailyNews Take: What a clusterfsck from Bloomberg Businessweek!
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Indict them on fraud and market manipulation.
I have a really hard time believing this story. The thought that a chip that wasn’t planned could find appropriate interconnects and then function correctly without awareness of the OS is ludicrous. The fact that Apple verifies the integrity of the OS in macOS and iOS make it very unlikely in their products and I have to believe that they check the bootloaders and flash their own image of windows on the PC servers they buy. I hate Bloomberg for reporting this without proper context.
You think someone was manipulating the stock? Wouldn’t it be nice if Bloomberg would get some investigative reporters hot on the trail? Use all of those sources they seem to rely on? 😉
All mess media and media in general has lost all integrity.. it is s one of the tye most corrupt institutions in the world..
Tenticals of the powerful to manipulate the masses!
Caveat Emptor!!!
All mass media and media in general has lost all integrity.. it is s one of the the most corrupt institutions in the world..
Tenticals of the powerful to manipulate the masses!
Caveat Emptor!!!