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Audit: No Chinese surveillance implants in Supermicro boards found
In a letter to customers issued December 11, Supermicro President and CEO Charles Liang and other top executives announced that an audit conducted by an outside investigating team had found no evidence of any malicious hardware incorporated into motherboards currently or previously manufactured by the company. The letter is the latest rebuttal to Bloomberg reports in October that claimed tiny chips that provided a backdoor for China's intelligence agencies had been integrated into boards provided to major Internet and cloud providers—a report also refuted by the companies the report claimed were targeted.
"After a thorough examination and a range of functional tests, the investigative firm found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on our motherboards," the letter signed by Liang, Supermicro Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer David Weigland, and Senior VP and Chief Product Officer Raju Penumatcha stated.
Searching for site:soylentnews.org supermicro on Google brought up a Supermicro ad linking the CEO letter, with the link entitled "Supermicro Independent Testing | No Malicious Hardware". Do you believe them?
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(Score: 2) by YeaWhatevs on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:30PM
I believe they chose to sit in a sensory deprivation chamber as well as actively not retrieve their own memories in order to make this claim.
I used to work with a guy who's tried to pull this shit every day of the week as he wrecked the software. First time or two I thought this could have been a tounge-in-cheek joke with bad delivery, or maybe he just had bad memory, but no, he really did somehow think this was going to get him out of fixing his shit. I really wish I was his manager that day. I would have given him about 15 seconds to drop the act or fire his ass on the spot.