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Ask HN: Six months after the Bloomberg “spy chip” story?

12 points by wybiral ↗ HN
It's been 6 months now since the story was published in Newsweek [1] and as far as I can tell they've never redacted the story or provided any evidence. Amazon, Apple, and Super Micro all still deny it but Bloomberg has stuck with their story.

Is this just the case of a news source refusing to own up to their mistake? Is it possible that their sources were lying to them on critical details? How does something like this happen without repercussions?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

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wybiral
* "redacted" was supposed to be "retracted"
howard941
Certainly it's possible that the many sources - there were more than a dozen if the reporters are to be believed - were lying. Wouldn't it be fairer to hold that the jury's still out? There's this https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber... documenting an attack ("...how the attack played out at Elemental...") . At that same page is a reasonable quote of advice from SANS' director. And another take here https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/10/05/making-sense-...
wybiral
I'm not ruling out that what they reported (or something resembling what they reported) happened. But it's been half a year and no evidence or corroboration has surfaced. That just seems odd.
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