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Interesting, but all the parties, including FBI and Apple, have denied just about all of it. No chips discovered, no abnormal networking activity, no call to the FBI, no investigation, nada.
 
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The first rule of good journalism.

Never ruin a good story for the lack of a few facts!
 
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so just deny something and that makes it not true?
 
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Didn't say that. What was done was that right after Bloomberg announced the "hack" and that Apple had contacted the FBI and NSA and just about every other alphabet soup organization, all of them (all) denied anything like that had happened. No chips, no calls, no FBI, no NSA, no network traffic. Basically, it would appear Bloomberg "made it all up." Now, COULD it have happened and all those parties conspired to deny it for some nefarious reason? Sure, but I don't wear a tin-foil hat and in today's environment, someone in at least one of those organizations would have leaked it out that "yes, something happened." But so far, only the so-called anonymous sources for Bloomberg seem to know about it. And at least one of them says that he didn't say it happened, only that theoretically it could. Bottom line, Bloomberg has no real evidence it happened. What is difficult is to prove a negative, i.e., it didn't happen. But the burden of proof is on Bloomberg that something did happen, and they offered no such evidence. My bet is that it didn't happen.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/11/kaspersky-lab-questions-supermicro-allegations/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/10/nsa-senior-advisor-questions-businessweek-story/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/07/apple-to-congress-nothing-found-chip-hack/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/06/dhs-backs-apple-denial-of-businessweek/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/05/sewell-says-fbi-never-heard-of-supermicro-hack/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/05/uk-ncsc-backs-apples-denial-of-businessweek-report/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/secur...chip-hack-investigation-casts-doubt-on-story/
 

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