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Investigation Into Supermicro's Server Motherboards Finds No Malicious Spy Hardware
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Today’s journalist is all about scripted “news”, clickbait headlines and opinion piece. Of course, this begs the question on all “news” that Bloomberg publishes. If this one cannot be trusted, why should we trust any other things from Bloomberg?
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Meh, don’t worry. The public has a very short attention span. Bloomberg won’t lose any credibility.
Wow! Good thing they're all doing the honorable thing staying honest and looking out for us!
I can continue to use my listeners and trackers again!
I can continue to use my listeners and trackers again!
This smells more and more like stock market manipulation by the day. The SEC should haul the authors of the article in to testify. Maybe it's the case the authors had bad sources or just sloppy journalism, but they need to figure out what happened and hold people responsible if the goal was intentional manipulation. Internally, Bloomberg needs to figure out how this article was allowed to be published because their credibility has taken a big hit. Next time Bloomberg publishes a big exclusive scoop, how many people will believe it?
Which might be fine if Bloomberg wasnt standing by the story. This is the problem in so-called jounalism and in fact the entire legal system. Search warrants are issued on nothing more then, "someone said" I always thought you had to have at least 2 separate independant pieces of information to even think of getting a warrant. Not today. Now you can just go to a judge.....and when I say go to I mean call......and just say, "Yeah, someone said this.....oh and I cant produce the person who said it either, but trust me, they do exist. Their a, umm, a C.I. yeah, yeah thats the ticket. You can talk to em later. I'll take the warrant now though em kay.....yeah, thanks"
Bloomberg gets their name in the press every time this fake news comes up. Free advertising.
everything but this smells like sensationalism - this sounds very true and is hushed by government
This is so JUICY!
You either think Apple is lying or that news is fake news.
Cant be both
puts some people in a seriously stressful predicament dont it?
You either think Apple is lying or that news is fake news.
Cant be both
puts some people in a seriously stressful predicament dont it?
There’s something still odd about this story. Unless they got straight trolled, why would they make up this story? Yes the idea of a magic grain of rice embedded in the pcb layers that compromises the data moving through isn’t really how things work, but moving with this story by a top legit news outlet without confirming it doesn’t make sense. All the compromised companies burying it or saying no we tested and it’s not true however does make a lot of sense.
I bet there’s some parts of this they got wrong, but I also bet that in 15 years it comes out it was way more true than they ever let on.
I bet there’s some parts of this they got wrong, but I also bet that in 15 years it comes out it was way more true than they ever let on.
I'd like to invite you guys to look at this topic from a completely unbiased perspective. Let's start with a few facts
- Michael B is not stupid enough to pursue a fake news that costs his company that much money
- SuperMicro not pressing charges on published news that cost their reputation
- Customers like Apple call for retraction but they NEVER confirmed that "we are not affected"
- The investigation is paid for by SuperMicro. They could influence the audit results
Based on those obvious facts, I'd like to view the issue as below
- It's possible Bloomberg has smoking gun proof but not offering yet. When they do, they will recover their stock
- SuperMicro wants to prove their innocence? Let someone else manage the investigation independently. Them paying for the audit is just not gonna cover their asses.
- Regardless who does the audit and how far/deep they go, the answer is still inconclusive. We do know that not 100% of servers affected. We also know if the MSS did this, they won't be stupid enough to add chips to new motherboards after the allegations. So in order to confirm the claim, existing servers already in customers' data centers need to be audited. Nobody is giving that permissions to auditors, which renders any and all audits inconclusive.
I'd like to wait and see one or two things
1. SuperMicro sues Bloomberg, forcing them to reveal any proof or pay up for the fake news.
2. Bloomberg shows its smoking gun to either government or public and SuperMicro gets sued by the whole World.
--> SuperMicro goes bankrupt for 100% sure for massive fraud
--> Chinese government gets in trouble with the whole World
--> US and all of its allies don't just ban SuperMicro, but will ban 100% of high-tech products from China. When I say this, I mean any devices/equipments that has the capability of sending/receiving signal/data.
--> If and when the ban happens, China goes back to its economic status pre-90s and stays there for a really long time.
- Michael B is not stupid enough to pursue a fake news that costs his company that much money
- SuperMicro not pressing charges on published news that cost their reputation
- Customers like Apple call for retraction but they NEVER confirmed that "we are not affected"
- The investigation is paid for by SuperMicro. They could influence the audit results
Based on those obvious facts, I'd like to view the issue as below
- It's possible Bloomberg has smoking gun proof but not offering yet. When they do, they will recover their stock
- SuperMicro wants to prove their innocence? Let someone else manage the investigation independently. Them paying for the audit is just not gonna cover their asses.
- Regardless who does the audit and how far/deep they go, the answer is still inconclusive. We do know that not 100% of servers affected. We also know if the MSS did this, they won't be stupid enough to add chips to new motherboards after the allegations. So in order to confirm the claim, existing servers already in customers' data centers need to be audited. Nobody is giving that permissions to auditors, which renders any and all audits inconclusive.
I'd like to wait and see one or two things
1. SuperMicro sues Bloomberg, forcing them to reveal any proof or pay up for the fake news.
2. Bloomberg shows its smoking gun to either government or public and SuperMicro gets sued by the whole World.
--> SuperMicro goes bankrupt for 100% sure for massive fraud
--> Chinese government gets in trouble with the whole World
--> US and all of its allies don't just ban SuperMicro, but will ban 100% of high-tech products from China. When I say this, I mean any devices/equipments that has the capability of sending/receiving signal/data.
--> If and when the ban happens, China goes back to its economic status pre-90s and stays there for a really long time.
I should've bought the SuperMicro dip
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This is all reasonable. Mainly I wonder why Apple didn't confirm they weren't affected. Maybe it's just too hard to prove the negative.
It seems like Apple has said they were NOT affected. How much clearer can they be??? Do they need to word it in a special way??? You dont like their sentence structure??? Also they tested servers already in data centers. They say they tested motherboards in current production AS WELL AS versions that were specifically sold to Apple and Amazon. It seems no amount of evidence is enough??? If the story is true someone....anyone....somewhere surely would be able to produce a motherboard with one of these chips in them. Right??? They are out in the world so whoever supposably added these chips cant just make them vanish off the motherboard at will. Produce one......just one. If you are basing your whole theory on the fact that no boards were tested that were currently in data centers then your wrong and should read the report.
Statements like..."Regardless who does the audit and how far/deep they go, the answer is still inconclusive" indicate there will never be enough evidence for you
So really, what's the story behind the story? Who was behind it? How did they fool bloomberg? How many people made money off of shorting the various stocks?
This is like the biggest troll of 2018, and the press is sweeping it under the rug.
This is like the biggest troll of 2018, and the press is sweeping it under the rug.