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Apple Denies Report Claiming Chinese Spies Planted Microchips in iCloud Servers
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Profits are not greed. It's why businesses exist. and if you like buying products, then you like businesses existing. I assume you like having phones, and microwaves, and cars. It's a fair exchange of goods/products for a price. You have a job right? So are you greedy? You work for money, right?
The only on there who seems to be ignoring logic is you with respect. China is no angel nor is Russia or the US or any country. However I do believe that while China has committed hacking offences on the world stage in this instance I do not think this story is true. I also see that Russia is hacking as well.
The difference being that China tends to hack to steal corporate secrets and information on governess officials etc so that they can use it to counter any attempt by that official's country to interfere too much in China's affairs. Whereas Russia tends to hack in order to create political and economical instability and given half a chance would probably do so to cause war.
I think that neither country is better than the other and I am not saying that any is justified in their hacking. I am though saying that if I had to choose between the two I would feel safer with China hacking than Russia.
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What the **** are you talking about? You make no sense at all.
they can GAG apple but they cannot force apple to make an affirmative statement, which is what apple has done.
IF you can stop listening to Trump and believing all that he says as being the truth I will try to explain. Russia DID hack the democrats and DID interfere with the US election!
End of! You may not wish to believe it but some things are true whether you like it nor not.
So stop with the rant because you sound like you need serious help with respect.
Yes China has a lot to answer for and so does Russia and all countries. So try to reflect that instead of seeming to be saying that Russia is purer than the driven snow.
Like i said in another post I would feel safer with China hacking than I would with Russia who seem determined to cause a war given half a chance. They were partially responsible for the shooting down of MH370 in the Ukraine. This assertion was backed up by the team of Dutch investigators who investigated the crash.
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Liberals do sometimes hold conflicting views but then so do conservatives and ANY political or non political view point. So unless YOU are not human YOU are as bad as the liberals you seem to hate on here!
So you are contradicting yourself.
If Apple would admit the security breach they admit their phones and your data is as private and safe as on any other phone. For the people buying the expensive iPhone and thinking their personal data is safe.... Apple can’t allow it to admit it’s true because Apple is trying to convince everyone their cloud offerings and hardware is the most secure with Apple offerings and justifies the high Apple prices. This statement will be wiped in a second if true.
Because Apple is not a person, the people who work for Apple are. SO I don't see how the US governed could force Apple employees to all stay silent and refuse to speak.
They could perhaps threaten Tim Cook and others with jail time but surely then his lawyers would then wake up and get busy in which case it becomes front page news.
However I know very little about the US constitution so perhaps there is the scope to keep Apple and it's employees silent. I just do not buy it that's all.
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Sorry but Russiagate is real. Sorry but any one other than Trump or his supporters can see that.
You say a lot without actually saying anything. Bravo!
I don’t support trump. Yet I can clearly see this is all noise. Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you need to hop on the bandwagon and believe everything.
Yes there was. Too much evidence all over the place to show it happened. Don Jr DID have a meeting to try to get hold of dirt on Hilary. Unless you are seriously trying to say that never happened. He denied it at first but then later admitted it so why should anyone trust him at all from now on?
if you are a Trump fan or simply do not like the democrats or whatever or whomever you support then that is fine but please try to connect with reality.
Russia DID hack the democrats and DID interfere, I am sorry if that upsets you but no one person, company, entity or country is on a pedestal. So stop thinking that Russia is.
Hasn't worked in the past ever! So i doubt that that tack would work now. I mean the NSA could not even keep prism secret could they.
In what? Apple completely denies it, risking major SEC sanctions if they are lying.
I highly doubt it would be possible to just "add a chip to a motherboard" if that motherboard was not designed for that chip. Was there a convenient socket ready and waiting for this stealth chip? Sorry Bloomberg, the real world ain't like the movies.
But at the same time, I'm skeptical about security screenings of incoming hardware. If a new server arrived shrink-wrapped in plastic, do you think they completely disassemble it and inspect the layout of every circuit before before putting it into production use? I doubt that. They likely do run a software screening, and maybe that has some diagnostic / signature system to verify its integrity, but to physically inspect the hardware seems like a reach to me.
Knowing China's tendency to hack and spit I am sure that Apple would have inspected the hardware as a matter of common sense. Software checking only find so much.
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If that is how you think then stop posting on here. if you do not like it then go elsewhere. Either put up or shut up as I used to get told.
I’m going to assume you know the whole backstory then. The first ‘Russain’ allegations came from the Hillary campaign, I’m a Bernie guy so I’m not too hot on her. But it had started after the Wikileaks email dump, it was never mentioned prior.
If you’ve read the intelligence report (the actual report), you’ll find out that they pinned it on Russia citing an entity ‘Guccifer 2.0’. What happened to Wikileaks? Strange that an intellgience report makes no mention of Wikileaks being the actual source, but rather uses Guccifer 2.0’s documents even though the guccifer documents have a *later timestamp*. Another strange fact is those documents, which are an exact copy of the Wikileaks email dump, are the same except for the newly added russain fingerprints on the bottom, created after the original Wikileaks files. Why oh why, would you cite copied altered documents is a stumper for me.
The document claims the files were hacked, but why does computer forensics show that the stolen files were transferred at USB speeds?
This is the foundation of the Russian narrative, it’s where it all started. It’s a house of cards.
Plus since then, there has been dozens of misleading and straight out false stories about Russia in the media. So much so that editors are being fired.
Except that Bloomberg has more of a track record of lying than Apple does. So I would take what Bloomberg has said with a pinch of salt.
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maybe you could wait for more details to emerge before jumping to a conclusion like this? If it’s true, apple is in serious trouble. But it would be very uncharacteristic for them to deny things so strongly if it were true. I don’t think Apple lie about this stuff; they may obfuscate and spin, but their statement seems very clearly worded to me.
Did this report also blow the cover on the question of what server hardware and server OS does Apple use in their data centers, and could this be another reason why Apple is upset over it? One would expect them to be using Mac Mini servers and the current version of macOS Server. Is that not true?
They don't run macOS server in their cloud servers
Truth is note the same as fact. It may be factual that Russia (state) hacked the DNC (NB contrary to public perception only a private company Cloudstrike and the DHS did an actual inspection of the hack AFAIK) and by extension "interfered" with the US election (the legal definition of which is rather vague), whether that amounts to a truth that Trump was placed into office thanks to the Russians is debatable (you cannot run counter-factuals). Note that it is also very convenient to use such hacks as excuses for:
1. Undermining the legitimacy of a public vote. I see this happen with Brexit, where suddenly, almost 2 years after the referendum in 2016, Russian "meddling" (whatever that mean) is used as a reason to doubt the results, although having living in the North of the UK for many years I am sure that the population is quite capable of making the wrong choice all by itself (see US election*)
2. We may want to prevent Chinese companies from competing on large infrastructure contracts (e.g. ZTE), thus circumventing protectionism allegations to the WTO...
Do not underestimate the influences of the Military- Industrial complex on foreign policy. It's what gives a lot of Americans a job...
*FWIW IMO HRC and DT are both horrible people - one is a manipulative narcissistic psychopath and the other is a anti-intellectual narcissistic compulsive liar. In my estimation the most intellectually honest and credible US presidents in my lifetime have been Obama and Reagan - I say that to assuage claims that I'm a blind follower of any particular ideology.
Makes me wonder if some of the lawsuits Apple has faced over iPhone problems is involved with this and that Apple just considers this a cost of doing business. I'm not saying or claiming they don't care, just that some problems like this are just chalked up and solved on the backend as it's still cheaper to assemble Apple products in China then anywhere else by far. Hmm.