The pile of shit itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013621/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Reddit reaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/9lac9k/china_used_a_tiny_chip_in_a_hack_that_infiltrated/

(posted on reddit more than a hundred times, over 5000 comments spread out on every thread, back in 2018 this was a huge story… all bullshit)

Article detailing the aftermath: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/04/editorial-a-year-later-bloomberg-silently-stands-by-its-big-hack-icloud-spy-chip-story

It really is this transparent when we look back at it all.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, security and management.

    Imagine if a Chinese vendor had a giant Chinese flag at a conference in the US and was offering to root your shit from the other side of the planet to manage it for you. Bloomberg’s staff would injure themselves trying to get to the keyboard first