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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @01:30PM (1 child)
When a TLA makes a stink about something they will have to reveal (at least) some of the evidence that they have. Doing so lets their adversaries know a little bit more about how they are being surveilled by the TLA.
I'm not saying that a TLA did find any proof, or that these accusations are true/false, just that "no diplomatic kerfuffle" does not mean nothing was uncovered.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 12 2018, @03:07PM
Yep. Whenever a TLA reveals something big, that revelation implies something about how the big revelation was discovered.
Conspiracy theory: Bloomberg's article author is a conspiracy theorist, or is working to help our Tirade War.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.